Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Forgotten is forgiven.

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Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Lawana Blackwell

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Bible

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

10.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

11.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

12.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Dolores Huerta

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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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

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

Higginson, Ella

23.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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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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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

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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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

Proverb

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Euripides

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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

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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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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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

37.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

39.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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