Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

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Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

Lawana Blackwell

2.

Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.

Wilde, Oscar

3.

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

4.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

5.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

8.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

9.

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

10.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

12.

Forgotten is forgiven.

13.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

14.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Dietrich, Marlene

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

20.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

22.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

23.

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

24.

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

Dolores Huerta

25.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

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

Bible

28.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

29.

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

Euripides

30.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

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

Lauter

36.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Augustine, St.

37.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

38.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

39.

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

40.

Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.

Proverb

41.

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

Lawana Blackwell

42.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

43.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

44.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Huxley, Aldous

45.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

46.

You should pardon many things in others, nothing in yourself.

Auson

47.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

48.

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