Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.

True repentance isn’t just saying, “I’m sorry”. It’s. saying “I’m sorry, I’ll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything”.

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.

Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive.

Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others...

People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat....

Revenge is like waves hitting the beach, the water is drawn in and sucked back into yet another wave, pounding and smashing its shoreline!

The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.

MISUNDERSTANDING” arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.

In my anger, I slew you twice. I saw you only as the dragon, and I forgot what you were meant to be. Can you forgive me?”–Etanun

Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.

At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling period wisdom sets in; finally, the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.

The well from which we draw our love to give to other people, should never be only as deep as the well wherein resides the love we have already received in our lives. The cycle...

Forgiveness is a promise not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sin against them.

I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.

In the closing of this chapter, Lutzer describes the choice of forgiveness in more detail: ‘Without both honesty andforgiveness, there can be no freedom from the fits of rage.’What happens through the years when such...

The common thread from all those stories was that talking helped, and listening, and time. One day I would find my own place. I couldn’t run there, though, because it didn’t exist yet; I had...

Ultimately, we can really forgive people only because Christ rose from the dead; his Resurrection is the guarantee that God can cure every wrong and every hurt.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Forgiveness doesn’t excuse their behaviour. It prevents their behaviour from destroying your heart.

All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.

Lord, Thou knowest that this medicine is in itself nothing, no more than as if I were to take a little water. Now please, O Lord, to let it produce the effect which is for...

The past doesn’t exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to live. Look… look at the sea. The sea has no past. It is just there. It will never...

Jesus came to save me from myself. He came to save me from self-effort. He didn’t just die for my sin to give me forgiveness; he rose again to give me life.

None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It’s by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy.

I refuse to live life with unsettled differences”.

. . . we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did...

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

If you can’t forgive and forget, then pick one and do it …

Never give up on love. Love like you have never been hurt.

Your greatest healing lies in forgiving all that has wrong and hurt you.

It is gracious to overlook an offence.

You forgive me coz you are great; I’m too bad coz I still love you.

There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankly, just gave him the creeps.

You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby’s diaper, forgive your boss’s temper, tolerate your spouse’s moodiness, you display...

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything… We don’t have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only...

You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

Forgiveness is no easy task; it takes a lifetime of remembering to move on

Never waste time holding grudges for people who have wronged you.Time waits for no one.Apologise when you are wrong,Express your love when you should,Forgive the ones who wronged you,And appreciate the one who makes efforts...

Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He has done more–he has given...

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

I forgive you, only if you promise to be happy in whatever you do.

Regret isn’t real. It’s something invented to punish ourselves

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

Mistakes are your school of learning therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning.

I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually, circumstances cause people to act a certain way. It’s from those circumstances that a person’s attitude is...

She [Catherine of Siena] found a place of refuge in a lonely wood, where some hermits lived. It is generally thought that this brotherhood was the community of hermits in Vallombrosa, founded by St. John...