10 Enlightening Forgiveness Quotes

Forgiveness Quote: "Forgiveness always seems so easy, when we need it, and so hard when we need to give it." --Fresh Start Devotionals

Forgiveness Quote: "Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." --Cherie Carter Scott, If Love is a Game, These Are the Rules

Forgiveness Quote: "Nothing in the Christian life is more important than forgiveness—our forgiveness of others and God's forgiveness of us." --John MacArthur, Jr., Alone with God

Forgiveness Quote: "We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us." -- Charles Stanley, Landmines in the Path of the Believer

Forgiveness Quote: "Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." --Mark Twain

Forgiveness Quote: "We are not bound to trust an enemy; but we are bound to forgive him." --Thomas Watson, Body of Divinity

Forgiveness Quote: "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." --Lewis B. Smedes, Forgive and Forget

Forgiveness Quote: "The best way to get the last word is to apologize." --God's Little Devotional Book for Women

Forgiveness Quote: "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." --Paul Boese

Forgiveness Quote: "To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven." --Charles Spurgeon