Terry Waite Quotes

When forgiveness is necessary, don't wait too long. We must begin to forgive, because without forgiving, we choke off our own joy; we kill our own soul. People carrying hate and resentment can invest themselves so deeply in that resentment that they gradually define themselves in terms of it.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.

I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

I firmly believe that usually, the person who hurt you doesn't realize what they've done or how much it hurt you. So, continue to pray for the person or situation that caused your pain and anger. Ask God to give you understanding about why they did what they did.

Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive.

What in your life allows you to give up to other people, and allows you to forgive others and accept forgiveness.

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.

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

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

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

I don't think I have the power to forgive.