“I find forgiveness to be really healthy.”
Forgiveness is not about letting someone off the hook — it is about putting the hook down. These quotes explore what it takes to release resentment, how to forgive without forgetting, and why holding a grudge mostly punishes the person holding it.
“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”
“I find forgiveness to be really healthy.”
“Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.”
“He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.”
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”
“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”
“The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.”
“To be social is to be forgiving.”
“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
“The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.”
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”
“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.”
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”
“Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.”
“The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.”