Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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.

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

Bible

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

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

Auson

11.

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

12.

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

13.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

14.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

16.

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

Brown, Les

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

Euripides

18.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

19.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

20.

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

21.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

22.

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

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Augustine, St.

25.

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

Edwards, Tryon

26.

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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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

28.

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

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

31.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

32.

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

33.

If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.

Proverb, Spanish

34.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

39.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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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

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

43.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

44.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

45.

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?