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

20.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

21.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

23.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

24.

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

25.

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

26.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Boese, Paul

30.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

31.

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

Szasz, Thomas

32.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

33.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Lawana Blackwell

38.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

39.

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

40.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

41.

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

42.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

43.

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.

44.

Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

Confucius

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

Real Live Preacher

47.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

48.

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

Dolores Huerta

49.

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

50.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel