Power Of Forgiveness Quotes

• 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

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Forgiving

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• When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge...is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Pain, Emotional

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• Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

  Jodi Picoult

  Past, Forgiving, Important

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Aug 07, 2015

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• It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

  Tyler Perry

  Forgiveness, Powerful, Journey

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• You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.

  Jack Kornfield

  Kindness, Heart, Hands

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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

  "Loving Your Enemies" by Martin Luther King, Jr., Christmas, 1957.

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• “I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "Gems of Truth & Beauty".

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  The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

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• It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2016

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• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Forgiveness

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Forgiveness, Positive Thinking

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• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Enemy

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• It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Letting Go

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• When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Evil

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• Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

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• The weak can never forgive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Being Strong, Forgiveness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black

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• Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

  Emma Goldman

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Understanding

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• When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Inspirational, Change, Forgiveness

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• Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

  Gary Chapman

  Forgiveness, Love Is

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.84, Moody Publishers

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• One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

  Bernard Baruch

  Life, Positive, Forgiveness

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• Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.

  David Simon

  Life Is Too Short, Heart, Compassion

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• Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

  Phillips Brooks

  Patience, Short Life, Life Is Too Short

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• Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Memories, Healing

  "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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• One forgives to the degree that one loves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Valentines Day, Forgiveness, Life Changing

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