Quotes for Forgiveness

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honore de Balzac

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Bryant H. McGill

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission

Grace Hopper

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

Grace Hopper

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more?

Mike Barnicle

Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Forgiveness is a spiritual practice and biblical mandate from the New Testament that many American Christians engage in as a part of their faith.

Anthea Butler

Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.

Richard Rohr

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Joyce Meyer

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

William Arthur Ward

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.

W. H. Auden

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

Abraham Lincoln

To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that prisoner was you.

Lewis B. Smedes

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

Michele Bachmann

The Way Of The Fist' is not quite a Shakespearian depiction of anger and revenge. This song was more my way of releasing all the pent up aggression I felt against some people who wronged me beyond the point of any kind of forgiveness or mercy.

Ivan Moody