Forgiveness Quotes

Forgiveness doesn’t mean accepting whatever’s happened. It means that you refuse to allow adversity to poison your life.

Dominique Loreau

If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 6:14-15

Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

Matthew 6:12

When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Mark 11:25-26

Forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us.

Luke 11:4

To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:10

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

Luke 17:3

But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

2 Corinthians 2:5-8

Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

Matthew 18:21-22

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

Luke 17:3-4

Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Luke 6:36-38

Forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

Maya Angelou

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

Anne Lamott

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.

Rick Warren

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man had need to be forgiven.

Lord Herbert

Good, to forgive; best to forget.

Robert Browning

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

Hannah Arendt

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

To receive an injury is to be wounded; but to forgive and forget it is the cure.

William Scott Downey

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Martin Luther King Jr

Forgiveness is local.

Matthew C Harrison

Forgiveness brings healing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Healing follows forgiveness

Pat Bluth

There is hope in forgiveness

John Piper

There is power in forgiveness.

Phil McGraw

Forgiveness is God's command.

Martin Luther

Forgiveness is its own reward.

Rickson Gracie

Forgiveness frees the forgiver.

Lance Morrow

Forgiveness is the best revenge.

Frederick Lindemann

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

Gandhi

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

C S Lewis

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Indira Gandhi

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

Jean Vanier

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

There is no peace without forgiveness.

Marianne Williamson

There is no future without forgiveness

Nelson Mandela

Forgiveness is a choice, not a feeling.

Joyce Meyer

Forgiveness changes the way we remember.

Henri Nouwen

Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.

Mark Driscoll

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

Richard Paul Evans

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.

Morgan Freeman

Forgiveness is simply a decision to cancel a debt.

Andy Stanley

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

William Arthur Ward

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

George MacDonald

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation ok, it makes you ok.

Beth Moore

The cost of forgiveness is less than the price of bitterness

Systenious Makhubele

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Martin Luther King Jr

Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the heart and cools the sting.

Peter Allen

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace.

L R Knost

Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.

Marianne Williamson

Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.

Zig Ziglar

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

Corrie Ten Boom

Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.

Spencer W Kimball