Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Boese, Paul

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Higginson, Ella

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

10.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

11.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

14.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Lawana Blackwell

19.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

20.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

21.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

22.

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

Bible

23.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

24.

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

Dolores Huerta

25.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

26.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

29.

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

Real Live Preacher

30.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

31.

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

Sophocles

32.

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

Auson

33.

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

Szasz, Thomas

34.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

35.

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

Euripides

36.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Bacon, Francis

41.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

42.

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

43.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

44.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

45.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

46.

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