Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
— Desmond Tutu
To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.
— David Small
There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
— Dana Perino
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
— Dag Hammarskjold
If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.
— Corbin Bernsen
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I think forgiveness is overrated, personally, because some things people do are unforgivable.
— Charlamagne tha God
I think there are different levels of forgiveness.
— Catherine Oxenberg
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.
— Camille Perri
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
— Bruce Lee
I come from a background where, if someone is rough and tough, you handle things physically. People betrayed me, and you just want to choke them. But you choose forgiveness.
— Brian Welch
Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.
— Billy Ray Cyrus
I've been interested in the idea of forgiveness and the necessity of it. I think of it as the most critical piece of any relationship, whether that be business, or romantic, or familial. We fail each other. We make mistakes. If we contract to go on after those mistakes, forgiveness is involved. Forgiveness is required.
— Bill Clegg
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
— Bernard Meltzer
I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
— Ben Affleck
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
— Ausonius
You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.
— Athol Fugard
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
The gospel of Jesus Christ encompasses much more than avoiding, overcoming, and being cleansed from sin and the bad influences in our lives; it also essentially entails doing good, being good, and becoming better. Repenting of our sins and seeking forgiveness are spiritually necessary, and we must always do so.
— David A. Bednar
I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.
— Damon Dash
When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.
— Craig T. Nelson
Forgiveness allowed me to wash my burdened past away.
— Clemantine Wamariya
The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
— Cheryl Hines
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
— Chaim Herzog
By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power of their faith and hope, children redeem their parents, bringing out their best selves.
— Cass Sunstein
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
— Bryant H. McGill
I love discussing social issues, but I'm not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love.
— Brie Larson
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.
— Brennan Manning
Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
— Billy Graham
We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
— Bernard Baruch
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
— bell hooks
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
— August Wilson
I never forgive, but I always forget.
— Arthur Balfour
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
— Dar Williams
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
— Dalai Lama
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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.
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
— Charles Williams
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
— Catherine the Great
I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
— Carlos Santana
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
You have to work on forgiveness and love, and that includes your own self.
The Eucharist is an opportunity of grace and conversion. It's also a time of forgiveness of sins, so my hope would be that grace would be instrumental in bringing people to the truth.
— Blase J. Cupich
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
I learned about forgiveness, and I've reached out to others to make amends.
— Beth Hart
Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.
— Benjamin Clementine
We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
— Bartlett Sher
Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.
