Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Forgiveness.
On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
Laura Schlessinger
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Arthur Balfour
I never forgive, but I always forget.
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
Benjamin Franklin
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Gerald Jampolsky
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
T. D. Jakes
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
Karl Barth
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
C.S. Lewis
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
George Eliot
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
Janine Turner
There is no forgiveness in nature.
Ugo Betti
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
Francis H. Bradley
People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
Johann von Goethe
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
Francis Quarles
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Desmond Tutu
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
Kin Hubbard
Forgiveness is a reflection of loving yourself enough to move on.
Steve Maraboli
