Forgiveness Quotes
No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
Edmund Phelps
American economist
I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell.
Kirk Cameron
American actor
We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.
Bill Clegg
American literary agent
If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.
Miroslav Volf
Croatian theologian
I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
Ben Affleck
American actor
I was probably about 22 years old when I recommitted myself to get off the fence and go all in and get serious about my faith. That's really when I experienced God's love and His forgiveness and His true grace.
Mike Fisher
Ice hockey centre
I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I'm totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.
Richard Branson
British business magnate
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
American theologian
Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.
Jennifer O'neill
Brazilian-born American actress, model, author, and activist
So many people ask, 'How could you forgive your mother for the way you were raised?' It's really not forgiveness, in my opinion. It's acceptance. She's never going to be the sort of mother who wants to take care of me.
Jeannette Walls
American author and journalist
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Mason Cooley
American aphorist
The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
Ingrid Betancourt
Former Member of the Senate of Colombia
Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
Mackenzie Phillips
American actress
Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?
Lee Unkrich
American film director
The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
Rick Perry
Former Governor of Texas
I have always had tremendous amount of patience, compassion and forgiveness.
Rahul Roy
Indian actor
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben
American writer
You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.
Iyanla Vanzant
American inspirational speaker
I think forgiveness is overrated, personally, because some things people do are unforgivable.
Charlamagne Tha God
American radio host
I believe in forgiveness.
Michael Caputo
American political
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