Forgiveness Quotes For
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When we dwell in the past incidents that hurt us, we are reliving the pain. The negative emotions within e.g. anger, bitterness, resentment or hatred can affect our ability to love others. Healing begins when we choose to let go of the past and move forward in life.
I hope that you can find comfort and strength from the words of those who have been hurt but set themselves free to love again.
Forgiveness Quotes
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."
- Lewis B. Smedes
"Forgiving is not a gift to someone else - Forgiving is your gift to yourself - a great gift - the gift of happiness."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."
- Alan Paton
"Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind... And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again... Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory. Forgiving sets you free."
- Lewis B. Smedes
"A heart filled with anger has no room for love."
- Unknown
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it."
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation."
- Roberto Assagioli
"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free."
- Catherine Ponder
"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life."
- John Lennon
"We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves."
- Joshua Loth Liebman
"Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future."
- Lewis B. Smedes
"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."
- Gerald Jampolsky
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
- Paul Boese
"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well."
- Lewis B. Smedes
"It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.”
