Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

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

Higginson, Ella

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Bible

14.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

21.

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

Thomas Szasz

22.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

23.

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

Real Live Preacher

24.

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

Szasz, Thomas

25.

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

Euripides

26.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

27.

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

28.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

29.

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

30.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

31.

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

Augustine, St.

32.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

33.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

Lawana Blackwell

35.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

36.

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

Wilde, Oscar

37.

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

38.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

39.

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

40.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

41.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

42.

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

43.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

44.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

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

46.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

47.

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

Bible

48.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

49.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

50.

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