Donald Miller Quotes

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I forgive everyone. There's no reason to hold anything against someone. Revenge is over with.

Forgive what you can't excuse.

God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same

We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry.

I have heard it said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have hurt it. I think a further measure is how it treats those who deeply disappoint it.

We know that we've done and said things that hurt people. Inflicting pain on others wasn't the goal, but it was one of the outcomes. We wish it weren't so, and regret that hurt.

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.