Quotes about Healing
Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.
- Harold S. Kushner
Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.
- RT Kendall
There is hope in forgiveness
- John Piper
The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hookâeven if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.
- RT Kendall
Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.
- Joyce Meyer
Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
- Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.
- Zig Ziglar
Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories...
- Henri Nouwen
Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.
- Marianne Williamson
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
- St. Augustine
I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.
- Catherine Marshall