Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Butler, Samuel

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

Beecher, Henry Ward

No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.

Real Live Preacher

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Twain, Mark

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

Hammarskjold, Dag

11.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

12.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

Heine, Heinrich

13.

If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.

Proverb, Spanish

14.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

15.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Brown, Les

17.

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

Real Live Preacher

18.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

19.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

20.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Lawana Blackwell

21.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

22.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

23.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

24.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Bacon, Francis

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Balzac, Honore De

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My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. [Job 14:17]

Bible

27.

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.

Real Live Preacher

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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Boese, Paul

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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Lauter

31.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

32.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

33.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

34.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

36.

And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. [Ephesians 4:32]

Bible

37.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

38.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Lawana Blackwell

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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Camus, Albert

40.

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

Real Live Preacher

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In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

Arendt, Hannah

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it

Twain, Mark

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One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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We pardon to the extent that we love.