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Sunday, July 23, 2023

Forgive Quotes

Quotes About Forgiveness

  • 1 TREE + 3 NAILS = 4 GIVEN 
  • Do not let the shadows of your past darken the doorstep of your future. Forgive and forget. --
  • Forgive before you forget. --
  • Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.  
  • Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. --
  • Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. --Paul Boese
  • Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free. Stormie Omartian 
  • Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. Suzanne Somers
  • Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Forgiveness is the fragrance that a flower leaves upon the heel that crushes it. 
  • Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it. --Mark Twain
  • Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner. Max Lucado
  • Forgiveness of sins is the very heart of Christianity, and yet it is a very dangerous thing to preach. --Martin Luther
  • He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need to be forgiven. George Herbert
  • He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass! Scott Nicholson
  • He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. Johann K. Lavater
  • Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy. --Charles Fillmore
  • How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin? John Henry Newman 
  • I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one. Henry Ward Beecher
  • If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty. --German proverb
  • If I ever seem to take you for granted, forgive me. --Helen Fitzwalter-Read
  • If we confess our sins, he is faithful & just & will forgive us ur sins & purify us from all unrighteousness. --1John 1:9
  • If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. --Mother Teresa
  • If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. --Glenn Clark
  • If your life is not all you want it to be, it may be that you have some forgiving to do.
  • It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. --Karl Barth
  • It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. --Jessamyn West
  • Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. --Sri Chinmoy
  • Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain, cherish the moment, live, laugh, love, forgive & forget, life's 2 short 2 be, living w/ regrets. --
  • Never does the human soul appear so strong & noble as when it forgoes revenge & dares to forgive injury. --Edwin H Chapin
  • Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.  --E. H. Chapin
  • Not forgiving someone is like you drinking the poison and expecting the other person to die. 
  • Oh forgive us Lord, for so often we seek the things in your hand rather than the things of your heart. 
  • One forgives to the degree that one loves. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed. --Bernard M. Baruch
  • People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
  • Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always. ~ Dan Zadra --
  • The more a man knows, the more he forgives. --Confucius
  • The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. Marianne Williamson 
  • The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. --Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian nationalist leader 
  • There is a hard law… When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. Alan Paton
  • To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. --Lewis B. Smedes
  • To hold a grudge is hateful, but to be willing to forgive is a beautiful thing.  --Joyce Meyer
  • True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment. David Ridge
  • We are certain there is forgiveness, because there is a gospel, and the very essence of the gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin. --Charles H. Spurgeon
  • When you choose to forgive those who have hurt you, you take away their power. --
  • Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. –ROBERTO ASSAGIOLI
  • To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. --LEWIS B. SMEDES



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Matthew 18:21-22 At that point Peter got up the nerve to ask, “Master, how many times do I forgive a brother or sister who hurts me? Seven?” Jesus replied, “Seven! Hardly. Try seventy times seven.
Luke 5:21, 24 NLT - 21 But the Pharisees and teachers of religious law said to themselves, "Who does he think he is? That's blasphemy! Only God can forgive sins!" ... 24 So I will prove to you that the Son of Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins." Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, "Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!"
Luke 6:37 NLT - 37 "Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven.
Luke 11:4 NLT - 4 and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. And don't let us yield to temptation."
Luke 17:3-4 NLT - 3 So watch yourselves! "If another believer sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive. 4 Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive."
Luke 23:34 NLT - 34 Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." And the soldiers gambled for his clothes by throwing dice.
Colossians 1:14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Matthew 6:12 - and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Matthew 6:14-15 - For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Acts 2:38 “Repent,” Peter said to them, “and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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