Forgiveness
172 quotes: 14 by Keith Craft, 158 from other voices.
Other voices on Forgiveness
- When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.
- When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.
- When you set out on a journey of revenge, first dig two graves.
- Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
- Without forgiveness, there’s no future.
- You cannot repent too soon, because you do not know how soon it may be too late.
- You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.
- You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.Lewis SmedesCommonly attributed
- You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.
- Your past is over; it cannot touch you. Forgive all involved, including yourself.
- You’re a slave to everyone you haven’t forgiven.
- The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.Tommy TenneyCommonly attributed