Quotes about Forgiveness
The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
- Marianne Williamson
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
- Marianne Williamson
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.
- Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.
- Nelson Mandela
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
- Corrie Ten Boom
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
- Bishop TD Jakes
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
- Bishop TD Jakes