Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
The heart has always the pardoning power.
There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.
Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. We are prone to make mistakes that cause confusion, inflict pain, and miscommunicate our intentions. . . The only choice we have is to reconcile ourselves to our own flaws and the flaws of other people, or withdraw from the community.
What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.
I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.
No evil is without its compensation. . . it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Wizard's Fourth Rule There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.
Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners
Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook - it's about releasing ourselves.
When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.
Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.
