Marianne Williamson Quotes

Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. Do you think this man cares about the pain and torment you have gone through? If anything, he feeds on that knowledge. Don't you want to cut that off? And in doing so, you'll release him from a burden that he carries whether he knows it or not--acknowledges it or not.

It is when judgment ceases that healing occurs.

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

As I forgive, I set myself free and experience the bliss of inner peace.

Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option.

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

Forgiveness is not something that 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.