Mike Barnicle Quotes

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

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

Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.

It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.

I don't think vengeance is much good.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

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

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about the more anonymous corners of the city, because I think it's very important that not all of that anger was turned to revenge.

I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.

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.

Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.

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

When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Only the brave know how to forgive...

I will always forgive but I will never forget.