148 private quotes tagged forgiveness

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”— Corrie Ten Boom

“Forgotten is forgiven.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”— Lewis B. Smedes

“Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.”— Billy Ray Cyrus

“How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.”— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”— Emo Philips

“In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.”— Madeleine L'Engle

“You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.”— Nicole Kidman

“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”— Indira Gandhi

“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”— Marlene Dietrich

“I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.”— Marianne Williamson

“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”— Hannah More

“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”— Lewis B. Smedes

“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.”— Billy Graham

“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.”— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”— William Arthur Ward

“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”— Dag Hammarskjold

“Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.”— Suzanne Somers

“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”— Les Brown

“Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.”— Alice Duer Miller

“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.”— Honore de Balzac

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”— Marianne Williamson

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”— Bryant H. McGill