Forgiveness Quotes - Page 2

As our nation's student debt crisis has reached a breaking point, we've been hearing lots of talk about student loan forgiveness. It's taken me 20 years to forgive myself for my loan - and just as long to pay it off.

In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness.

When I felt real forgiveness, my heart was set free.

Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

Forgiveness for one's self is the only way we can keep going through life and give ourselves the best chance at being the best people we can be.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

I think forgiveness is overrated, personally, because some things people do are unforgivable.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

If we were not sinners, Jesus would not have had to come. If he didn't see us as sinners, he could have loved us without dying for us. He died for our sins. So if we're all sinners, that means everybody's in the pot together needing the same love, the same grace and the same forgiveness.

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.'

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

I'm a believer in forgiveness. I have worked with people who have been in gangs and now dedicate their lives to helping inner city kids. I've run offender services with teachings of responsibility, empathy and understanding of the victims at their heart. I've seen people change.

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.

What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.