Forgiveness Quotes

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Craig T. Nelson

Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.

Sir Thomas Browne

Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.

Euripides

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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He who forgives ends the quarrel

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Indira Gandhi

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.

Lord Chesterfield

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Lord Chesterfield

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Desmond Tutu

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Proverb

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Corrie Ten Boom

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Elbert Hubbard

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Jane Austen

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

Albert Camus