T. D. Jakes Quotes

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

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

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

I don't hold grudges.

No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.