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Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.
I think it’s important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.
I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships – things like forgiveness and compassion.
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
I have to ask Allah’s forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it’s not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn’t until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don’t have a problem going to sleep at night.
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.