Quotes about Forgiveness
I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.
— Catherine Marshall
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
— Timothy Keller
The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.
— Charles Stanley
Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.
— William Paul Young
I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
— Oprah Winfrey
If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.
— Joyce Meyer
Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.
— Mark Driscoll
Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
— CS Lewis
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.
— Louise Hay
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.
— Timothy Keller