Forgiveness Quotes

"Conveying apology and seeking forgiveness stems from a place of love and generates positive energy, for ourselves and also for the person who was hurt"

- Nozer Kanga

"Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind."

- Buddha

"We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster."

- GLaDOS

"Batman: You want to know something funny? Even after everything you've done, I would have saved you. The Joker: [laughs, coughs] Actually, that is pretty funny."

- Batman and Joker

"Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

- 1 John 1:9 (NIV)

"For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us."

- Psalm 103:11-12

"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

"There are no easy answers. No quick solutions. No clear paths for resolving the hardest in life. But we can choose forgiveness. We can choose grace. No matter what, we can still choose love."

- Lauren Fortenberry

"Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly."

- Lawrence G. Lovasik

"Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"It’s one of the toughest things in the world when somebody has hurt you, and you can find within yourself the strength to begin the whole process of forgiveness. And it turns out to be the gift to you, not so much the gift to the person you’re forgiving."

- Dr. William Orr

"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

"As long as we carry a grudge against someone, that person goes on haunting us in a way – we give them power over us. We are not free."

- Osho

"Vengeance wastes a lot of time and exposes you to many more injuries than the first that sparked it. Anger always outlasts hurt."

- Seneca

"Forgive those who have hurt you."

- Les Brown

"Someday, we’ll forget the hurt, the reason we cried and who caused us pain. And we’ll finally realize that the secret of being free is not revenge, but letting things unfold in their own way and own time."

- Paulo Coelho

"When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet."

- Steve Maraboli

"'He fell on his neck and kissed him.' This is how the father judges and corrects his wayward son and gives him not beatings but kisses. The power of love overlooked the transgressions. The father redeemed the sins of his son by his kiss, and covered them by his embrace, in order not to expose the crimes or humiliate the son. The father so healed the son's wounds as not to leave a scar or blemish upon him. 'Blessed are they,' says Scripture 'whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered' (Romans 4:7)."

- Peter Chrysologus

"And He is the Forgiving, the Loving,"

- Quran 85:14

"Our Lord, forgive me and my parents and the believers the Day the account is established."

- Quran

"And We have not created the heavens and earth and that between them except in truth. And indeed, the Hour is coming; so forgive with gracious forgiveness."

- Quran

"Evil words are for evil men, and evil men are [subjected] to evil words. And good words are for good men, and good men are [an object] of good words. Those [good people] are declared innocent of what the slanderers say. For them is forgiveness and noble provision."

- Quran

"And My Mercy encompasses everything."

- Quran

"Those who are patient in adversity and forgive wrongs are the doers of excellence."

- Quran

"My mercy encompasses all things."

- Quran

"Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed He is the most Forgiving, the Merciful."

- Quran

"Forgive yourself and others. Holding onto grudges only hurts you in the long run. Forgive and let go of the past."

- Anonymous

"Forgiveness is making a conscious decision to live in the present, even if the past still hurts."