Deep down inside, each of us knows what our truths are. It is forgivable to lose them…It is unforgivable not to reclaim them.

Happiness is a state of awareness, which comes from tranquility, service, love, grace, and forgiveness.

I had talks with my American colleague, (Treasury Secretary) John Snow, which created the basis on which the forgiveness of Iraqi debt can be settled mutually in the Paris Club.

sometimes forgiving someone it’s not because he’s really sorry and deserved it, but because we were worthy of tranquility.

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

Absolution is the most powerful form of forgiveness. A full pardon from suspicion and accountability. It’s the liberation of a stolen future. A future my father never lived to see. Absolution is a mercy the...

I had thought about forgiveness more and more…I knew it wasn’t a light that could be switched on in an instant-it grew day by day, week by week, month by month-but something was changing inside...

A long held belief based on a perceived reality that is rooted in a diminishing view of yourself or others probably is not serving you.Today is a good day to let go of one of...

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

I cannot hate any man!

Reiz es gribēju pakārt laupītāju, bet tas sāpēja viņa mātei. Un mātes bēdas sāpēja viņa māsai, un meitas sāpes sāpēja viņas dārzam: puķes novīta un ābeles nobirdināja nega­tavus augļus, jo meita ziedā aiz bēdām aizmirsa...

Oh, you’ve outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring’s a promise of peace and I’m greedy with hope. It’s a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though...

achieving true sobriety goes beyond abstinence. it’s also about healing your soul, apologizing for damage you did to other, and seeking forgiveness.

… Papa’s always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go.” “Not a bad ability.””… I’m not sure. I think we have to remember it all before we can...

I’ve never heard anyone say “I wish I hadn’t forgiven.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

… I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all those times we fished together. Do you...

There is no need returning anger to those who made your past horrible, do not think of making them feel bitter, maybe a help from you can just make them ashame and miserable, and can...

if the goddes can forgive her, can’t we?””I think there’s a big difference between forgiving her and makin her into something she wasn’t just because she’s dead

She was busy thinking about the concept of forgiveness. It was such a lovely, generous idea when it wasn’t linked to something awful that needed forgiving.

Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.

We watched, and he taught us like he did every day we were with him. He showed us how to forgive.

I think you’re under no obligation whatsoever to forgive anything, to forget anything. You’re not required to push away the years of abuse because the abuser now chooses to be sober and in his sobriety...

So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.

In the photograph by my bed my other is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and...

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.

Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God’s great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the...

Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done...

My problem stemmed from not forgiving myself.

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

Can I be forgiven for all I’ve done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it.

Smiling is not a choice, it’s a lifestyle. Pass it on.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

When you deeply and completely love yourself, you find there is nothing to forgive because everyone and everything has contributed to who you are now.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Is it your implication that no good will come of this expedition?’‘Oh it will, sir; there’s no denying that.’ Captain Chillingworth’s words emerged very slowly, as if they had been pulled up from a deep...

I’m a good enough person to forgive you, and you should be a good enough person to not do it again.

The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. “There will be more rejoicing in heaven...

She didn’t care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.

If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

Bless them that persecute you.’ If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies...

Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for non-reaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through....

Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can...

No, I don’t believe it,” Joseph said. “From listening to my father and grandfather talk about El Shaddai, I think he’s different from the gods of Egypt. I think that none of us could ever...

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is...

If you want to master your past at some point in time you’ll have to learn forgiveness.

It seems like every day you have to deal with problems, interpersonal problems, survival, and so on and so forth. But you only have one problem and there is one solution to that problem. Isn’t...

And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister in faith, or they are your counterpart in humanity.

The dreadful joy Thy Son has sentIs heavier than any care;We find, as Cain his punishment,Our pardon more than we can bear.

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.