Famous forgiveness quotes

Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
- Jonathan Huie

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.
- William Arthur Ward

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
- William Blake

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore it.
- Albert Einstein

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."
- Oprah Winfrey

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus

Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
- Joan Baez

Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave.
- Ivern Ball

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You’ve been forgiven, and you can forgive others.
- Rick Warren

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
- Nelson Mandela

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
- William Arthur Ward

It all begins with forgiveness because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.
- Michael Jackson

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
- Indira Gandhi

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
- Steve Maraboli

There are some facts that will never change. One fact is that you are forgiven. If you are in Christ, when he sees you, your sins are covered-he doesn’t see them. He sees you better than you see yourself.
- Max Lucado

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
- Cherie Carter-Scott

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
- Barbara Kingsolver

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky