FORGIVENESS QUOTES
quotations about forgiveness
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
ANNE LAMOTT
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
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
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
attributed, Mayor
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
WM. PAUL YOUNG
The Shack
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
Forgiveness is like money. We want to get it, not give it.
JENTEZEN FRANKLIN
Love Like You've Never Been Hurt
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
As I free myself through Forgiveness, Myself dances around Myself. I stand in the Light.
GITA BELLIN
The Flourishing Mind
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
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE
An Essay on Criticism
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
Forgiveness is healing ... especially forgiving yourself.
ALYSON NOËL
Evermore
To receive an injury is to be wounded; but to forgive and forget it is the cure.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
SCOTT ADAMS
attributed, Dictionary of Quotations
If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.
JESUS
Luke 17:3
Good, to forgive;
Best to forget.
ROBERT BROWNING
prologue, La Saisiaz
Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.
FRED ROGERS
The World According to Mister Rogers
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
Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
JESUS
Luke 6:37
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