Quotes About Healing

Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

It's hard to forget, but forgiveness is something you do for yourself.

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.

Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.