Forgiveness Quotes

• FORGIVENESS QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
  Thomas Fuller


• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
  Oscar Wilde


• There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
  Josh Billings


• Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
  Suzanne Somers


• When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
  Emo Philips


• Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
  Norman Cousins


• Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
  Indira Gandhi


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


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


• Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
  Hannah Arendt


• It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
  Lana Turner


• We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
  Martin Luther King, jr


• You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
  Lewis B. Smedes


• Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
  John F. Kennedy


• Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
  Hannah More


• Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
  Mark Twain


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


• Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
  Gerald Jampolsky


• Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
  George MacDonald


• It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
  Jessamyn West


• Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,Therefore, we are saved by hope.Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;Therefore, we are saved by faith.Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.Therefore, we are saved by love.No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
  Reinhold Niebuhr


• It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
  Lewis B. Smedes


• Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
  Cherie Carter-Scott


• One forgives to the degree that one loves.
  Francois de La Rochefoucauld


• There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
  Bryant H. McGill


• To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
  Alexander Chase


• When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
  Bernard Meltzer


• When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
  Lewis B. Smedes


• The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
  Thich Nhat Hanh


• Without forgiveness, there's no future.
  Desmond Tutu


• The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
  Confucius


• Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves.
  Sidney and Suzanne Simon


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


• 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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