Pope John Paul II Quotes

Revenge is easy, but forgiveness requires courage.

Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

Resentment is when you allow what’s eating you to eat you up. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. And mercy is the choice that can set them all free.

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.

I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven.

I can never hold a grudge against anyone, even if I know that he has done something wrong to me.

I struggle with insecurities. I struggle with forgiveness. I struggle with letting someone go that did me dirty without vengeance, which is an evil thing.

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

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.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Life is full of painful events, and people who have lost their way and hurt others. Our pain is not lessened when we respond with hatred. In fact, the opposite occurs: When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.