FORGIVENESS

Robert Muller
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
Catherine Ponder
“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
Lewis B. Smedes
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Lewis B. Smedes
“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
Paul Boese
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
Desmond Tutu
“Without forgiveness, there's no future”
Hannah Moore
“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart ... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”
Cherie Carter-Scott
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”
Robert Muller
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness."
Norman Cousins
“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”
Catherine Ponder
“The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.”
Malcolm Forbes
“Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.”
Proverb
“In our society, forgiveness is often seen as weakness. People who forgive those who have hurt them or their family are made to look as if they really don't care about their loved ones. But forgiveness is tremendous strength. It is the action of someone who refuses to be consumed by hatred and revenge.
Jean Vanier
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness.”
William H. Walton
“When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.”
Lewis B. Smedes
“None of us wants to admit that we hate someone...When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our spite, make adjustments, and make believe we are too good to be hateful. But the truth is that we do not dare to risk admitting the hate we feel because we do not dare to risk forgiving the person we hate."
George Herbert
“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."
Ken Hart
“Forgiveness does not equal forgetting. It is about healing the memory of the harm, not erasing it.”
Sidney J. Harris
“A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive"
Elbert Hubbard
“The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."
Kauffman
“The supreme act of courage is that of forgiving ourselves. That which I was not but could have been.That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth, to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?"
Martin Luther King
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude."
Ann Landers
“One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed."
John MacArthur
“Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion."
George MacDonald
“It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart."
Henri Nouwen
“It is freeing to become aware that we do not have to be victims of our past and can learn new ways of responding. But there is a step beyond this recognition... It is the step of forgiveness. Forgiveness is love practiced among people who love poorly. It sets us free without wanting anything in return."
Pinkola-Estes
“You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstances instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to remember to say about it all. You understand the suffering that drove the offense to begin with. You are not waiting for anything.You are not wanting anything. There is no lariat snare around your ankle stretching from way back there to here. You are free to go. It may not have turned out to be a happily ever after, but most certainly there is now a fresh once upon a time waiting for you from this day forward."
Rambler
“A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."
Sogyal Rinpoche
“All religions stress the power of forgiveness, and this power is never more deeply felt than when someone is dying. Through forgiving and being forgiven, we purify ourselves of the darkness of what we have done, and prepare ourselves most completely for the journey through death"
Marianne Williamson
“Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
Dan Zadra
“Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always"
Hannah Moore
“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart ... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”
Cherie Carter-Scott
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”
Robert Muller
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