Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is God's command.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Lauter

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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

Higginson, Ella

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

Boese, Paul

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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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

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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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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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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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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I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

Heine, Heinrich

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Dolores Huerta

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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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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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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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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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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

Euripides

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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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

Real Live Preacher

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Proverb

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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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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