Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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

Szasz, Thomas

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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

Bible

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

Gibran, Kahlil

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

10.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

11.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Edwards, Tryon

12.

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

13.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

14.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

15.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

16.

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

Boese, Paul

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

21.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

22.

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

Bible

23.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

24.

Forgotten is forgiven.

25.

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

Higginson, Ella

26.

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

Brown, Les

27.

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

Lawana Blackwell

28.

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

29.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

30.

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

31.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

32.

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

Lauter

33.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

34.

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

35.

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

Thomas Szasz

36.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

39.

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

Euripides

40.

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.

41.

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

Lawana Blackwell

42.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

44.

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

45.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

46.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

47.

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