Forgiveness Quotes

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"How can we condemn those who are truly blinded by evil? We can't. We shouldn't. How do we bring about conversion of those living in blindness? By love. By truth in charity. By offering forgiveness. By offering mercy. With prayer."

"I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred."

"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge."

"I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration."

"Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible."

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."

"Wisdom is the quiet space we cultivate between our thoughts, where clarity finally speaks. As a philosopher & thinker, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"Your potential is a fire waiting to be kindled by the friction of consistent effort."

"We seek truth not to change the world around us, but to clarify the lens through which we view it."

"In the field of wisdom & life, the path to true wisdom begins when we question the certainties we have carried since childhood."

"In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker."

"In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling."

"My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions."

"When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth."

"I always enjoyed being made uneasy, and I was into anything that was off-putting. I can't exactly put my finger on why, but it always seemed more exciting than those things that made you feel comfortable."

"If a CEO takes an interest in you and he happens to be an Asian man, then that's great, but as an African-American woman, you want to make sure that if the executive vice-president of the company is an African-American woman that you get to know her."

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."

"In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do."

"I went to the opening of 'Sister Act,' and I had such a great time. I had no idea what it was about, and I had never seen the movies. But I heard the show went through some major last-minute craziness in previews, and man, opening night was really fun and really entertaining."

"No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear."

"The big thing is that you know what you want."

"I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day."

"For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown."

"When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen."

"Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness."

"Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all."