“I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.”
Charles Simeon
“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.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“There are only so many cheeks to turn before you die of torture by repetition, or your anger is somewhat justified.”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.”
Dolores Huerta
“''To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“They who forgive most, shall be most forgiven”
Josiah Bailey
“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.”
Paul Tillich
