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Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.
Sep 16, 2025
You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.
It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
What power has love but forgiveness?
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
Forgive those who have hurt you.
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.
I still believe in the power of forgiveness. I believe in the power of redemption. Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in the resurrection.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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.
When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge...is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness.
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.
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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 was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.
One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.
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.
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
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.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
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.
Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?