Forgiveness Quotes

FORGIVENESS QUOTES

quotations about forgiveness

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Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Life Thoughts

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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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Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers

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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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I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

RAY BRADBURY

"Sci-fi Legend Ray Bradbury on God, Monsters and Angels", CNN: Living, August 2, 2010

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Forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

MAYA ANGELOU

Facebook post, Nov. 22, 2013

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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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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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It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

HORACE

Satires

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Willingness to forgive frees the soul to laugh and cry and be The Beloved.

GITA BELLIN

The Flourishing Mind

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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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It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Jerusalem

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"Forgive and forget" goes the expression, and for our idealized magnanimous selves, that was all you needed. But for our actual selves the relationship between those two actions wasn't so straightforward. In most cases we had to forget a little bit before we could forgive; when we no longer experienced the pain as fresh, the insult was easier to forgive, which in turn made it less memorable, and so on.

TED CHIANG

"The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling", Subterranean Press Magazine

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Forgiveness is like a magic slate -- it gives us a fresh start.

ROBERT C. KAUSEN

We've Got to Start Meeting Like This!

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They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

1957

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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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If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.

JESUS

Luke 17:3

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It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.