Forgiveness Journey Quotes

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds--the places where we feel we can't love any more, can't connect any more deeply, can't forgive past a certain point. We are in each other's lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal.

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.

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged deep. And we must expect some lapses...some people seem to manage to finish off forgiving in one swoop of the heart. But when they do, you can bet they are forgiving flesh wounds. Deeper cuts take more time and can use a second coat.

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

I accepted the forgiveness of God. I got off track as an adult and because I believe in God's grace, I believe that gave me strength then to get that little part of my life realigned, to not play games about it, to confess it, to ask for forgiveness from God and ask others to forgive me as well and then move on.

I will be asking for forgiveness, but hopefully I won't have to be asking for much forgiveness.

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

As you pray for forgiveness, you will find yourself forgiving others. As you thank God for His kindness, you will think of others, by name, who need your kindness. Again, that experience will surprise you every day, and over time it will change you.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.

I think forgiveness is probably one of the greatest forms of self-love there is because you don't do forgiveness for anybody else. My captors will never care if I forgive them... It will not make a day of difference to them at all, but it will make a huge difference to me.

My experience has shown me that many people struggle with forgiveness of self and/or others.

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

I was eight years old when my father was murdered. It is almost impossible to describe the pain of losing a parent to a senseless murder ... But even as a child, one thing was clear to me: I didn't want the killer, in turn, to be killed. I remember lying in bed and praying, Please, God. Please don't take his life, too. I saw nothing that could be accomplished in the loss of one life being answered with the loss of another.

Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.

Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.