100 Forgiveness Quotes that Give Us New Meaning about Ourselves

Forgiveness Quotes – Forgiveness contains a very deep and meaningful word in our lives. Forgiveness leads us to become aware of our own mistakes and bad behavior.

Forgiveness also brings peace as a term that states that all humans are not free from mistakes, also forgiveness is used here as a form for us to understand the part of our own mistakes.

In our attitude, the form of forgiveness brings us to realize and understand the part of ourselves that is often negligent,

So, asking for forgiveness is a form of acknowledging and apologizing for our own mistakes.

In everyday life, the word forgiveness also means apologizing for anything and forgiving all the mistakes that lie behind it.

The word forgiveness has a deep and extraordinary meaning in our daily lives.

Many things describe the form of apologizing and forgiveness in our lives, one of which is from the following quotes regarding forgiveness of God, humans for our actions, both intentional and unintentional, as a form of our awareness and our stupidity in making mistakes and omissions.

These are 100 forgiveness quotes that lead you to be aware of your own mistakes and apologize for what you have done.

Forgiveness Quotes that Give Us New Meaning about Ourselves

1. “Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After an injury, a scar is what makes you whole.” – China Miéville

2. “There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.” – Alan Paton

3. “Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.” – Ted Chiang

4. “Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it’s something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.” – Jim Beaver

5. “We forgive so long as we love.” – Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

6. “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.” – Corrie Ten Boom

7. “True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.” – Oprah Winfrey

8. “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ” – Ellen Goodman

9. “I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.” – Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

10. “Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.” – C. JoyBell C

11. “A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.” – Stephen Richards

12. “A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.” – William Arthur Ward

13. “Forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process” – Barry Lyga

14. “Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.” – Lewis B. Smedes

15. “Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender” – Elizabeth Gilbert

16. “Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.” – Sebastian Barry

17. Forgiving means you have chosen not to dwell on the matter anymore; you have moved on with your life.” – Idowu Koyenikan

18. “People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required.” – Andrew Solomon

19. “Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.” – Jennifer McMahon

20. “Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.” – W.Paul Young

21. “Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.” – Tom Giaquinto

22. “I don’t forgive people cause I’m weak I forgive them cause I’m strong enough to understand people make mistakes.” – Unknown

23. “People have to forgive. We don’t have to like them, we don’t have to be friends with them, we don’t have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don’t, we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!” – C. JoyBell C.

24. “Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You’re done. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.” – Anne Lamott

25. “Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen

26. “Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.” – Louis B. Smedes

27. “Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim–letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.” – C.R. Strahan

28. “Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.” – Marvin J. Ashton

30. “We don’t forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it, because we need it.” – Bree Despain

31. “I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.” – Henry Ward Beecher

32. “I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, everyday, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself “That’s just fine”. You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don’t even see those things anymore. Because that’s what love is like.” – C. JoyBell C.

33. “The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either or both when needed?” – Gordon B. Hinckley

34. “I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it’s not so easy when you try it in real life.” – Susane Colasanti

35. “Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectations that the other person apologizes or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time-just like it does for you and me.” – Sara Paddison

36. “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” – Marianne Williamson

37. “It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.” – Tyler Perry

38. “Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.” – C.S. Lewis

39. “The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it’s not because they forget; it’s because they forgive.” – Demi Moore

40. “Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.” – Barbara Kingsolver

41. “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” – C.S. Lewis

42. “What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you’d never forget?” – Jodi Picoult

43. “Forgiving is rediscovering the shining path of peace that at first you thought others took away when they betrayed you.” – Dodinsky

44. “I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.” – T. D. Jakes

45. “Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.” – Wil Zeus

46. “It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.” – Steve Maraboli

47. “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.” – Siddhārtha Gautama

48. “Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.” – Khalil Gibran

49. “We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen

50. “Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.” – Hannah More

51. “Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.” – Marion Zimmer Bradley

52. “Forgiveness is not a one-off decision; it is a journey and a process that takes time, determination, and persistence. Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is simply denying your pain the right to control your life.” – Corallie Buchanan

53. “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” – Coretta Scott King

54. “We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.” – Samuel Butler

55. “Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.” – Hannah Arendt

56. “Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” – William Arthur Ward

57. “Learn to love someone when they least deserve it because that is when they need your love most.” – Rodolfo Costa

58. “To err is human, to forgive, divine.” – Alexander Pope

60. “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” – Steve Maraboli

61. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi

62. “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” – C.S. Lewis

63. “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

64. “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.” – Oprah Winfrey

65. “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” – Mark Twain

66. “Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.” – Marvin J. Ashton

67. “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” – Criss Jami

68. “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” – John F. Kennedy

69. “People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.” – Kent M. Keith

70. “The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

71. “Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on” – Homer

72. “It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.” – Mitch Albom

73. “The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” – Thomas Szasz

74. “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” – Lewis B. Smedes

75. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi,

76. “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” – C.S. Lewis

77. “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” – Steve Maraboli,

78. “Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” – J.K. Rowling

79. “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” – Jane Austen

80. “Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.” – Robert Jordan

81. “To err is human, to forgive, divine.” – Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

82. “There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.” – C. JoyBell C.

83. “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” – Rita Mae Brown

84. “Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.” – C.R. Strahan

85. “Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive. But should they finally confess and repent, you will discover a miracle in your own heart that allows you to reach out and begin to build between you a bridge of reconciliation.” – William P. Young

86. “Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.” – Wil Zeus

87. “Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else’s nightmare.” – Lance Morrow

88. “Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.” – Barbara Kingsolver

89. “A heart filled with anger has no room for love.” – Joan Lunden

90. “I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, everyday, whenever you remember a shortcoming.” – C. JoyBell C.

91. “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.” – Corrie Ten Boom

92. “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” – Nelson Mandela

93. “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” – Abraham Lincoln

94. “To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.” – Confucius

95. “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.” – C.S. Lewis

96. “When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.” – Jon Krakauer

97. “Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either or both ,when needed?” – Gordon B. Hinckley

98. “It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.” – Steve Maraboli

99. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde

100. “Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden.” – Donna Goddard

Those are 100 forgiveness quotes bring you blessings upon yourself and bring you to be aware of your mistakes, whether intentional or not. Hopefully it can be useful and inspire you all.