Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

2.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

3.

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

Real Live Preacher

4.

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

5.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

6.

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

Heine, Heinrich

7.

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

8.

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

Higginson, Ella

9.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Lauter

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

13.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

14.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

15.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

16.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

17.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

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

Sophocles

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

22.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

Forgotten is forgiven.

24.

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

Lawana Blackwell

25.

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

Auson

26.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

28.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

29.

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

Lawana Blackwell

30.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

31.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

32.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

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

34.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

35.

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

36.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Brown, Les

39.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

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

Thomas Szasz

44.

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

Balzac, Honore De

45.

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

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

48.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.