Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.
— Mother Angelica
Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.
— Molly Bloom
Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.
— Michele Bachmann
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'
— Maya Angelou
Every one of us have been disappointed before and have had to go through the grieving process of anger and, you know, disappointment and then acceptance and forgiveness.
— Mathew Knowles
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sandy Meisner would say it takes 20 years to make an actor. Some people it takes five, some people 30. And you have to have patience and forgiveness for yourself. It's hard when you see people at your age or younger becoming successful.
— Mark Pellegrino
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
— Marianne Williamson
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
My experience has shown me that many people struggle with forgiveness of self and/or others.
— Malik Yoba
I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.
— Louise L. Hay
What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
— Louis Dudek
Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
— Les Brown
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.
— Lee Tergesen
I'm all about preaching forgiveness and compassion.
— Montaigne
If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.
— Miroslav Volf
Perhaps one could say I've worked in South Africa too long, but I believe in forgiveness, especially when a person admits a mistake, asks for forgiveness, and works to right a wrong.
— Michael Finkel
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
— Mason Cooley
Forgiveness is God's command.
— Martin Luther
I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.
— Mark Wahlberg
I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.
— Mario Batali
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
— Mahavira
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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.
— Louis Zamperini
God forgives those who invent what they need.
— Lillian Hellman
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Forgive those who have hurt you.
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
— Laurence Sterne
It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.
— Monica Johnson
What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more?
— Mike Barnicle
Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple's rebuilding?
— Meir Soloveichik
I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore the Second Amendment rights to people who are qualified and have shown themselves qualified to have those rights restored to them.
— Matt Bevin
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
— Mark Twain
The struggle between Israelis and Palestinians is a perfect reflection of the struggle between fear and forgiveness that rages within us all.
The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
Amnesty is the forgiveness of something. Amnesty is anything that says, 'Do it illegally, it will be cheaper and easier.'
— Marco Rubio
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
— Mackenzie Phillips
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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.
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?
— Lee Unkrich
