Power Of Forgiveness Quotes:

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.78, BookBaby

topic: Forgiveness, Forgiving, Power Of Forgiveness

What power has love but forgiveness?

- William Carlos Williams

source: Oriole Farb Feshbach, William Carlos Williams (1991). “Illuminations: images by Oriole Farb Feshbach for the poem "Asphodel, that greeny flower" by William Carlos Williams”, Midmarch Arts Pr

topic: Forgiveness, Power Of Forgiveness

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

topic: Forgiveness, Hurt, Wish, Hurt Feelings, Inspirational Forgiveness

When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge...is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness.

- Caroline Myss

topic: Spiritual, Pain, Emotional, Power Of Forgiveness

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Past, Forgiving, Important, Power Of Forgiveness

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

- Tyler Perry

topic: Forgiveness, Powerful, Journey, What Is Forgiveness, Power Of Forgiveness

You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.

- Jack Kornfield

topic: Kindness, Heart, Hands, Power Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring, Love And Hate, Forgive Yourself

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: "Gems of Truth & Beauty".

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Another Way, Asking For Forgiveness

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Just Stay Strong, Never Forgive

Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Giving, Resentment, Burden, Relieved, Love And Courage

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

- Lewis B. Smedes

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Happiness, Never Forgive, Inspirational Forgiveness

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness, Soul Healing, Inspirational Healing

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Forgiveness, Self, Skills, Inspirational Forgiveness, Giving Love

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Forgiving, Enemy, Conquer, Power Of Forgiveness

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

- Lewis B. Smedes

topic: Inspirational, Forgiveness, Letting Go, Inspirational Forgiveness, How To Forgive

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

- Lewis B. Smedes

topic: Forgiveness, Letting Go, Evil, How To Forgive, Power Of Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart, Letting Go Of Anger, Self Forgiveness

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Inspirational, Forgiveness, Understanding, Letting Go Of Anger, Power Of Forgiveness

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

- Bernard Meltzer

topic: Inspirational, Change, Forgiveness, Inspirational Forgiveness, What Is Forgiveness

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

- Gary Chapman

source: Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.84, Moody Publishers

topic: Forgiveness, Love Is, Power Of Forgiveness

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Life, Positive, Forgiveness, What Is Forgiveness, Power Of Forgiveness

Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.

- David Simon

topic: Life Is Too Short, Heart, Compassion, Free Yourself, Power Of Forgiveness

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

- Phillips Brooks

topic: Patience, Life Is Too Short, Failure, Life's Too Short, Keep Patience

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

- Lewis B. Smedes

source: "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

topic: Broken Heart, Forgiveness, Heartbroken, Forgive Yourself, Inspirational Healing

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Valentines Day, Forgiveness, Life Changing, How To Forgive, What Is Forgiveness

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

- Jean Paul

topic: Beautiful, Forgiveness, Humanity, How To Forgive, What Is Forgiveness

Don't let the sun go down on me.

- Elton John

source: Song: Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

topic: Rejection, Sun, Handshake, Letting Go Of Anger, Losing Everything

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

- Antonio Porchia

source: "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

topic: Forgiveness, Evil, Forgiving, Power Of Forgiveness, Forgiving Others

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

- Phillips Brooks

topic: Forgiveness, Faults, Bears, Vengeful, Malicious

Forgive those who have hurt you.

- Les Brown

topic: Hurt, Forgiving, Economy, Hurt My Feelings, Hurting You

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

- Jessamyn West

topic: Forgiveness, Easter, Mistake, Power Of Forgiveness, Forgiving Love

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

- Cherie Carter-Scott

source: Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Love Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.94, Random House

topic: Forgiveness, Anger, Force, Letting Go Of Anger, Self Forgiveness

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

- William Blake

topic: Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing, Stabbing, Making Friends

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Military History, Military Soldier

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

- George Herbert

topic: Relationship, Forgiveness, Faith, Inspirational Forgiveness, Self Forgiveness

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

topic: Forgiveness, Dream, Children, Broken Promises, Inspirational Forgiveness

Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

- Paul Tillich

source: Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.10, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Forgiveness, Our Love, Overcoming, Power Of Forgiveness, Forgiveness Love

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.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Forgiveness, Spiritual, Two, Another Way, Asking For Forgiveness

I still believe in the power of forgiveness. I believe in the power of redemption. Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in the resurrection.

- Jesse Jackson, Jr.

source: "Jesse Jackson Jr. going to prison; says he 'manned up'" by Dan Merica, Larry Lazo and Leslie Bentz, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2013.

topic: Believe, Responsibility, Errors, Power Of Forgiveness

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

- Lance Morrow

topic: Forgiveness, Past, Forgiving, Self Forgiveness, Power Of Forgiveness

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Friendship, Forgiveness, Good Life, Making Friends, Destroying Me

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Inspiring, Forgiveness, New Beginnings, Inspirational New Beginning, Starting A New Beginning

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

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Love, Forgiveness, Letting Go, Inspirational Forgiveness, Morning Prayer

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

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness, Inspirational Forgiveness, What Is Forgiveness

The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

- Immaculee Ilibagiza

topic: World, This World, Bigs, Power Of Forgiveness