Quotes about Forgiveness

We tend to demonize those we inflict pain on. It lessens our guilt.

We chain ourselves to those we don't forgive.

Forgiveness is release — to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. To not forgive is to chain oneself to people and circumstances of the past. In doing so, our past becomes our future.

people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.

Regret is a useless emotion.

Hating those boys didn't do anything to the boys, just to me. So I pushed them and all my hate from my heart. Once I did that, God came back in.

One cannot understand the power of grace until one has needed it. Or given it.

It's like they say, holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

Forgiveness is alchemy. To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it and turn it into something noble and fine. That is true alchemy. Remember that. It's not always easy, but if you can do that, you'll have a happy life.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.