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If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.
Sep 13, 2025
We do not have to know how to forgive. All we have to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the how.
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.
Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior, it's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know how to forgive. All we need to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.
In order to heal oneself, we must learn how to forgive.
I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.
We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Everybody kind of has to learn the same lessons. You've got to learn how to get over your first love. You've got to learn how to forgive people that emotionally abuse you. You've got to learn how to let go in a lot of ways.
Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you.
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.
Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.
How to forgive a murderer? First, by differentiating his sufferings from his exploitation of death to ease them. For his sufferings - greed, jealousy, frustration - he will need reeducation, support and, compassion. For our outrage about murder, we need to examine deeply our faith in death. As long as we collectively believe that death has power over life, we will spawn deluded, self-appointed little gods who want that power.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive.
The brave only know how to forgive.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.
Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hearts and see if there is any unforgiven hurt -- any unforgotten bitterness! It is easy to love those who are far away. It isn't always easy to love those who are right next to us. It is easier to offer food to the hungry than to answer the lonely suffering of someone who lacks love right in one
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.
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.
The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.
Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
The weak can never forgive.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.