Quotes about Forgiveness
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
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
- Thomas a Kempis
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
The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory
- John Calvin
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.
- St. Augustine
Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher