Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

- Mcdowell, Josh

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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

Real Live Preacher

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

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

Augustine, St.

10.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

11.

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

Lauter

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Spanish

17.

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

Auson

18.

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

Edwards, Tryon

19.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

20.

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

21.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

22.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Heine, Heinrich

25.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

26.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

27.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

28.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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

Thomas Szasz

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

Boese, Paul

32.

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

Camus, Albert

33.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

34.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

35.

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

Lawana Blackwell

36.

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.

37.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

38.

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

Szasz, Thomas

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

43.

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

44.

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

Dolores Huerta

45.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

47.

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

48.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb