Quotes about Forgiveness

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

scapegoaters, but rather on the side of the scapegoated victim.

Take this, all of you, and drink from it: this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of me.

The Church calls people to be not spiritual mediocrities, but great saints, and this is why its moral ideals are so stringent. Yet the Church also mediates the infinite mercy of God to those who fail to live up to that ideal (which means practically everyone). This is why its forgiveness is so generous and so absolute. To grasp both of these extremes is to understand the Catholic approach to morality.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.