George MacDonald Quotes

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

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

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves *you*...Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

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

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

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

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

If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

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.