Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

God has a big eraser.

- Zeoli, Billy

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Balzac, Honore De

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Heine, Heinrich

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

15.

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

16.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

17.

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

Dolores Huerta

18.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

19.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

21.

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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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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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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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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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

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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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

Higginson, Ella

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

Boese, Paul

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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.

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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

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

Bible

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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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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

40.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.