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Quotes About Healing

We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls.
~ Ed Dobson
Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
Blame keeps wounds open; only forgiveness heals
~ Thomas S. Monson
When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.
~ Amy Poehler
Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There's nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness where you don't hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they didn't know and for the things they didn't know to do.
~ Tyler Perry
Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.
~ Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiveness is not between me and the one who has hurt me; it is between me and the Lord.
~ Virginia H. Pearce
Receiving the Holy Ghost is the therapy which effects forgiveness and heals the sin-sick soul.
~ Marion G. Romney
There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.
~ Erma Bombeck
Forgiveness, quite frankly, is the most selfish thing you can do. Because it is the greatest thing you can do for yourself.
~ Caroline Myss
If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense
~ Miroslav Volf
Forgiveness is simply a decision to cancel a debt.
~ Andy Stanley
Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.
~ Liane Holliday Willey
Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.
~ Lesley Kagen
Forgive yourself first. Let go of past hurts and direct your spirit to goodness and hope by having gratitude.
~ Unknown
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
~ Cesare Pavese
At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
If we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us.
~ Antoinette Bosco