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Debbi created this list of inspiring quotes that she uses to help her with forgiving and she wanted to share them with you! 

  • Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. –Dr. Martin Luther King
  • In order to heal we must forgive…and sometimes the person we must forgive is ourselves.
  • Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. –Robert Brault
  • Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. –Buddha
  • Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and . . . realizing you were the prisoner.
  • Forgiveness is the very reason God sent His Son.
  • Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.
  • Don’t carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones.
  • If you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you.
  • Forgiveness is an act of self love.
  • Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
  • They caused the first wound, but you are causing the rest.
  • Forgiveness doesn’t diminish justice; It just entrusts it to God.
  • In the shadow of my heart forgiveness feels like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
  • When you forgive, you don’t change the past . . .You change the future!
  • People make mistakes. Even people we love.
  • To heal a wound you need to stop touching it.
  • The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. –Gandhi
  • When you can’t forgive someone, pray for them. It may not change them, but it will always change you.
  • Consider a rope. Sometimes holding on does more damage than letting go.
  • Forgiveness is making a decision to live in the present . . . even if the past still hurts.
  • You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them . . . but still move on without them.
  • We often hold a grudge because we don’t want to let the person off the hook. But who’s really hooked: the one who’s moved on or the who’s holding on?
  • Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.
  • I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.
  • We must remember that hatred is like acid. It does more damage to the vessel in which it is stored than to the object on which it is poured.
  • Cry or curse or call it unfair, but be grateful to the grave, that in this hurt you’re the one who received, and no the one who gave. –Carol Lynn Pearson
  • I never knew how strong I was until I had to forgive someone who wasn’t sorry, and accept an apology I never received.
  • Today I decided to forgive you. Not because you apologized or because you acknowledge the pain that you caused me, but because my soul deserves peace.
  • When someone does something wrong–don’t forget all the things they’ve done right.

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