Sometimes it takes a year of following ancient rules to remind yourself of the importance of modern values like kindness and forgiveness.

The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.

To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.

This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you’ve done.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

Lead from a place of compassion and forgiveness.

I forgive as often as possible. I think forgiveness is the bedrock of a spiritual practice.

If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness – changing your thoughts and energy around that person – can lower stress.

Life is too short to hold onto grudges. Forgive, let go, and move forward.

In life, there are no guarantees, but taking risks is the only way to truly live.

The religion of Christ means more than the forgiveness of sin; it means taking away our sins, and filling the vacuum with the graces of the Holy Spirit.

If you have given offense to your friend or neighbor, you are to acknowledge your wrong, and it is his duty freely to forgive you. Then you are to seek the forgiveness of God, because the brother you have wounded is the property of God, and in injuring him you sinned against his Creator and Redeemer.

I desired to become a Christian, and prayed earnestly for the forgiveness of my sins. I felt a peace of mind resulting, and loved every one, feeling desirous that all should have their sins forgiven, and love Jesus as I did.

Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either — or both — when needed?

Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Forgiving is not forgetting; it’s actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. It’s a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you don’t want to repeat what happened.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well to the perpetrator.

This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

The energy of hatred won’t get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Forgiveness is nothing less than the way we heal the world. We heal the world by healing each and every one of our hearts. The process is simple, but it is not easy.

In our own ways, we are all broken. Out of that brokenness, we hurt others. Forgiveness is the journey we take toward healing the broken parts. It is how we become whole again.

I would like to share with you two simple truths: there is nothing that cannot be forgiven, and there is no one un-deserving of forgiveness.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

Without forgiveness, there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

I free myself from hatred through forgiveness and love.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day

Sometimes, you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive

Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.

Women are not meant to judge us, but to forgive us when we need forgiveness. Pardon, not punishment, is their mission.

I believe in grace because I’ve seen it and peace because I’ve felt it and forgiveness because I’ve needed it.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it’s accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

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

A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

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

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

A benightedly retrospective gentleman who is asked to forget the difference between the sexes in order that he may forget the difference between good and evil.

To err is human; to forgive, divine

AN ASS having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, “The dew.” The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them

Therefore, dark past, I’m about to do it. I’m about to forgive you for everything.

Let us forgive each other—only then will we live in peace.

I remember that the day I finished ‘The Angels,’ part three of ‘The Book of Laughter and Forgetting’, I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

The ultimate form of disrespect is to dismiss someone’s worth and value.

I write to remember, and I write to forget.

I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don’t think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only harms you to worry about those things.