Forgiveness Quotes
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Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time-just like it does for you and me. David McArthur & Bruce McArthur -Sara Paddison. (Quote by - Sara Paddison)
To err is human; to forgive, divine. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him. (Quote by - Hazrat Ali)
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. (Quote by - George Herbert)
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. (Quote by - Lewis B. Smedes, "Forgiveness - The Power to Change the Past)
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. (Quote by - Israel Zangwill)
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. (Quote by - Alden Nowlan)
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. (Quote by - Ed Howe)
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. (Quote by - Tillotson)
If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. (Quote by - Olin Miller)
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. (Quote by - William Blake, Jerusalem)
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. (Quote by - Roberto Assagioli)
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. (Quote by - Joan Lunden)
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. (Quote by - Lewis B. Smedes)
Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet. (Quote by - Frank McKinney)
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. (Quote by - Rambler)
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. (Quote by - Sydney Harris)
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. (Quote by - Earl of Chesterfield)
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. (Quote by - Isaac Friedmann)
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. (Quote by - Grace Hopper)
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. (Quote by - Sterne)
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. (Quote by - Peter Ustinov)
Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir. (Quote by - Kabir)
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. (Quote by - Franklin P. Jones)
If you can't forgive and forget, pick one. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. (Quote by - E.H. Chapin)
Forgive thyself little, and others much. (Quote by - Leighton)
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. (Quote by - Madame Dorothée Deluzy)
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. (Quote by - Paul Boese)
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
When I'm having trouble loving someone I mentally regress him to baby state. (Quote by - Jan Gopal)
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. (Quote by - Marlene Dietrich)
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. (Quote by - Harriet Nelson)
