Forgiveness Quotes

• In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Free
  • Facts
  • Honesty

• Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

  

  Jennifer O'Neill
  • Forgiveness

• People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • People
  • God
  • Trust

• Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

  

  Jennifer O'Neill
  • Power
  • Forgiveness

• When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

  

  Craig T. Nelson
  • Live
  • Present
  • Compassion

• Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Jesus
  • Stress
  • Grants

• Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Life
  • Acceptance
  • Tolerance

• Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Honor
  • Sin
  • Wealth

• I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Forgiveness
  • Pardon

• I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Promise
  • Land

• Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Up
  • Past
  • Opportunity

• When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Great
  • Different
  • Small

• The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships.

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • Power
  • Forgiveness

• Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Soul
  • Mistake
  • Sad

• In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Relationship
  • Purpose
  • Healing

• God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • May
  • Earth

• Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Hope
  • Past
  • Changed

• Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

  

  Dar Williams
  • Truth
  • Forgiveness

• Forgiveness for one's self is the only way we can keep going through life and give ourselves the best chance at being the best people we can be.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • People
  • Life
  • Forgiveness

• I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

  

  Andrea Thompson
  • Compassion
  • Forgiveness

• Prejudice is sinful. All blood flows red. And the most harmful and foolish kind of prejudice is prejudice against yourself. Every woman is your sister, and every woman needs her sisters. So try to give other women the courtesy of your compassion, respect, and forgiveness. Love yourself despite - and because of - your flaws.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Red

• Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Future
  • Song
  • Free

• I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

  

  Aleksandar Hemon
  • Game
  • Path
  • Forgiveness

• Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Hope
  • Sin
  • Catholic Church

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