Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

Higginson, Ella

2.

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

Szasz, Thomas

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Forgotten is forgiven.

6.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

7.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

8.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

9.

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.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

13.

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

14.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

15.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Dietrich, Marlene

17.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

18.

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

19.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

20.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

28.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

29.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

30.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

35.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

36.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

39.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

40.

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

Brown, Les

41.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

42.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

43.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Camus, Albert

45.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

46.

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

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.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

49.

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

Bacon, Francis

50.

We pardon to the extent that we love.