Desmond Tutu Quotes

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

Forgiveness provides hope, joy, and a bright future that nothing else can.

There is hope in forgiveness

Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.

A lot of people, when they say 'forgive and forget,' they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they don't haunt you or handicap you or kill you.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.

The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.

There is power in forgiveness.

Forgiveness is something that's always possibility.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

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.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

I'm not angry with Axl anymore. I love him and I feel blessed that I got to work with him and achieve what I achieved with him. I guess time does heal all wounds.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.