Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Forgotten is forgiven.

10.

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

Szasz, Thomas

11.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

17.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

21.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

23.

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

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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

Real Live Preacher

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lauter

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To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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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

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Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

45.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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

Proverb