Forgiveness Quotes

"To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up."

- Ogden Nash

"In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer."

- H. Norman Wright and Gary Oliver

"Make a list of ten of your spouse’s faults, which, for the sake of your marriage, you will always overlook. You can live with those ten."

- J & G Murphy

""To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.""

- C. S. Lewis

"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."

- Laurence J. Peter

"When you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins."

- Jesus

"And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins."

- Jesus

"It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."

- Jesus

"Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, 'Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?' Jesus answered, 'I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.'"

- Jesus

"For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins."

- Jesus

"I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent."

- Jesus

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

- Jesus

"Take heart son, your sins are forgiven."

- Jesus

"If you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you."

- Jesus

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

- Gandhi

"Forgiveness brings us closer to those who have hurt us and helps them to experience the forgiveness and love of Jesus through us who forgives them."

- Omoakhuana Anthonia

"Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you."

- Louisa May Alcott

"The remedy for life’s broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don’t try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"How much better to heal than seek revenge from injury."

- Seneca

"Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday."

- Wayne Dyer

"Grace means that all of your mistakes now serve a purpose instead of serving shame."

- Brené Brown

"But if a person is patient and forgives, this is one of the greatest things."

- Quran Ash-Shura 42:43

"And your Lord is the Forgiving, Full of Mercy. If He were to impose blame upon them for what they earned, He would have hastened for them the punishment; but for them is an appointment from which they will never never be averted."

- Quran 18:58

"Say, ‘O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful.’"

- Quran 39:53

"And those who, when they commit an immorality or wrong themselves [by transgression], remember Allah and seek forgiveness for their sins – and who can forgive sins except Allah? – and [who] do not persist in what they have done while they know."

- Quran 3:135

"And not equal are the good deed and the bad. Repel [evil] by that [deed] which is better; and thereupon the one whom between you and him is enmity [will become] as though he was a devoted friend."

- Quran

"The start of January marks a time to let go of regrets and embrace the opportunity to make things right."

- Roy T. Bennett

"There is nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness."

- John Connolly

"Don’t forgive them because they deserve forgiveness, forgive them because you deserve peace."

"May this Saturday be a day of forgiveness, letting go of grudges, and embracing the power of love."