Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

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Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

Boese, Paul

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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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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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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

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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

Augustine, St.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sophocles

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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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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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

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To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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

Dolores Huerta

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Brown, Les

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Proverb

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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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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

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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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.

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