forgiving oneself Quotes

Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life

I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

Forgiveness isn't just the absence of anger. I think it's also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.

I've always loved to dance and keep fit but more recently I feel like I cannot keep up any longer and my back starts to hurt. And I get angry and then I have to really learn to forgive myself and go: you know what, you're nearly twice the age of some of the people in this room, give yourself a break.

Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift. I think one of the most important things is starting off the day forgiving others and forgiving yourself. You learn from your mistakes, but I don't think you have to drag them back into today.

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.

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

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.

We must learn not to give up when requirements are not met or when commitments are broken. To do so is a refusal to allow mistakes to be corrected and a demonstration of an unwillingness to forgive yourself or anyone else who needs forgiveness.

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

Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.

Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.

We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.

The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.