Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

2.

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

Lawana Blackwell

3.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

4.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

5.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

6.

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

Proverb, Spanish

7.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

8.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

10.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

11.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

12.

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

Sophocles

13.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

14.

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

Szasz, Thomas

15.

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

16.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

17.

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

Camus, Albert

18.

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

Auson

19.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

20.

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

Heine, Heinrich

21.

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

Boese, Paul

22.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

23.

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

Augustine, St.

24.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

25.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Edwards, Tryon

26.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

28.

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

Lawana Blackwell

29.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

32.

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

Thomas Szasz

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

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.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

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

Twain, Mark

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

40.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

41.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

43.

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

Dolores Huerta

44.

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

45.

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

Bible

46.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

47.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.