Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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

Bacon, Francis

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

Chesterfield, Lord

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Szasz, Thomas

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Richter, Jean Paul

10.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. [Ephesians 1:7]

Bible

11.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Augustine, St.

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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

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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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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lawana Blackwell

16.

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

Lauter

17.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive

Harris, Sidney J.

19.

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

20.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Mitchell, Margaret

21.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Sophocles

22.

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

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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

Lawana Blackwell

24.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

25.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

26.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

27.

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

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

30.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

Dolores Huerta

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

Bible

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

Real Live Preacher

33.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

34.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

35.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

36.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

37.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.

Higginson, Ella

40.

Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.

Al-massabaih, Mishkat

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Euripides

43.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

44.

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

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