Forgiveness Quotes

FORGIVENESS QUOTES

quotations about forgiveness

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

The Shack

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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

ANNE LAMOTT

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

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But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Handmaid's Tale

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Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue, which he alone that can practice in himself, can willingly believe in another.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

J. K. ROWLING

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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To receive an injury is to be wounded; but to forgive and forget it is the cure.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

attributed, Mayor

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Forgiveness is like money. We want to get it, not give it.

JENTEZEN FRANKLIN

Love Like You've Never Been Hurt

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For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

The Fairyland Series

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True and genuine forgiveness, that which our Lord commands, buries all offenses beyond all hope of resurrection in the deep bosom of the ocean, and knows them again no more forever. Indeed, a friendship cemented by forgiveness is like iron welded--stronger at the point of juncture than elsewhere; or like a broken bone repaired--it will break anywhere else sooner than at the place of former fracture.

R. H. BENNETT

"The Law of Forgiveness", Homiletic Review, Volume 55

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As I free myself through Forgiveness, Myself dances around Myself. I stand in the Light.

GITA BELLIN

The Flourishing Mind

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Forgiveness is like the gentle zephyrs wafting the dew of heaven over field, farm and woodland, rendering the landscape beautiful to behold.

C.L.W.

"Forgiveness", The Juvenile Instructor, Volume 25

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Forgiveness is healing ... especially forgiving yourself.

ALYSON NOËL

Evermore

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The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

STEVE MARABOLI

Unapologetically You

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But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Handmaid's Tale

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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man had need to be forgiven.

LORD HERBERT

The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury

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Forgive, and you will be forgiven.