Forgiveness famous quotes

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
-- Abdul Qadeer Khan

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On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Forgiveness #Fruit #Bears

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Friendship #Forgiveness #Good Life

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Forgiveness #Fighting #Past

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Forgiveness #Past #Differences

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Forgiveness #Wish #Looks

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Forgiveness #Believe #Ignorance

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
-- Alan Paton

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Done

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
-- Alan Paton

#Forgiveness #Mistake #Past

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.
-- Albert Camus

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

#Forgiveness #Republic #Impossible

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
-- Albert Einstein

#Inspirational #Leadership #Forgiveness

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
-- Albert Ellis

#Forgiveness #People #Forgiving

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.
-- Albert Ellis

#Forgiveness #Self #Self Forgiveness

Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
-- Alcee Hastings

#Forgiveness #Christian #Buddhist

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
-- Alden Nowlan

#Forgiveness #Wise #Wisdom

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Life #Forgiveness #Time

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Forgiveness #Men #Self

To err is human; to forgive, divine.
-- Alexander Pope

#Inspirational #Forgiveness #Letting Go

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
-- Alexander Pope

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Divine

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
-- Alice Miller

#Forgiveness #Anger #Doe

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.
-- Alice Munro

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Never Forgive

If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael

#Forgiveness #Memories #Forgiving

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
-- Andy Stanley

#Forgiveness #Hurt #Decision

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
-- Ann Landers

#Moving On #Forgiveness #Heartbroken

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Forgiveness #Suffering #Made

Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.
-- Anne Ellis

#Forgiveness #Believe #People

If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?
-- Anne Graham Lotz

#Forgiveness #Jesus #Forgiving

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...
-- Anne Lamott

#Forgiveness #Mean #Lunch

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
-- Anne Lamott

#Forgiveness #Mean #Unimportant

In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life.
-- Anne Truitt

#Forgiveness #Kindness #Character

if we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us ...
-- Antoinette Bosco

#Forgiveness #Hurt #Forgiving

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
-- August Wilson

#Inspirational #Strength #Forgiveness

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Change #Forgiveness #Moving

Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.
-- Barbara Wood

#Summer #Forgiveness #Dog

See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event - it's a process.
-- Barry Lyga

#Forgiveness #Events #Process

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
-- Bell Hooks

#Forgiveness #Believe #Compassion

Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.
-- Ben Greenhalgh

#Forgiveness #Mean #Apology

Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.
-- Benjamin Barber

#Forgiveness #Injury #Heal

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Forgiveness #Faults #Remember

To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.
-- Bernadette Roberts

#Forgiveness #Needs #Enough

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
-- Bernard Baruch

#Life #Positive #Forgiveness

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
-- Bernard Meltzer

#Inspirational #Change #Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
-- Betty Smith

#Inspirational #Forgiveness #Cost

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
-- Bill Cosby

#Inspirational #Moving On #Forgiveness

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Forgiveness #Enemy #Thankfulness

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
-- Billy Graham

#Forgiveness #Christian #Powerful

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.
-- Billy Graham

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Doe

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
-- Billy Graham

#Forgiveness #Spiritual #Men

When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.
-- Billy Graham

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Sin

Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.
-- Billy Graham

#Forgiveness #Depth #Holiness

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Forgiveness #Vices #May

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
-- Bruce Lee

#Inspirational #Motivational #Forgiveness

To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.
-- Bryan Adams

#Forgiveness #Hate #Men

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Forgiveness #Men #Forgiving

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Love #Inspirational #Forgiveness

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Forgiveness #God #Christian

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Forgiveness #Thinking #Forgiving

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Forgiveness #Reality #Thinking

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Forgiveness #Religious #Forgiving

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Beautiful #Forgiveness #Practice

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.
-- Caroline Myss

#Forgiveness #Healing #Forgiving

If we let go of things, our life is going to change. And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.
-- Caroline Myss

#Forgiveness #Letting Go #Reality

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Forgiveness #Revenge #May

I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Forgiveness #Acceptance

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
-- Catherine Ponder

#Forgiveness #Emotional #Stronger

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
-- Catherine Ponder

#Forgiveness #Mind #Forgiving

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
-- Cesare Pavese

#Inspirational #Forgiveness #Travel

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
-- Cesare Pavese

#Forgiveness #Stupidity #Forgiving

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.
-- Chad Harbach

#Forgiveness #People #Forgiving

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
-- Chaim Herzog

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Forget

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Forgiveness #Regret #Moving

God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.
-- Charles R. Swindoll

#Forgiveness #Wish #Who We Are

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.
-- Charles Simmons

#Forgiveness #Doe #Noble

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
-- Charles Williams

#Forgiveness #Party #Broken

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
-- Charlotte Bronte

#Life #Forgiveness #Hate

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
-- Charlotte Lennox

#Forgiveness #Revenge #Enemy

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
-- Cherie Carter-Scott

#Forgiveness #Anger #Force

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.
-- Christiane Northrup

#Forgiveness #Rivers #Grudge

I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.
-- Christopher Paolini

#Forgiveness #Asking For Forgiveness #Permission

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

#Forgiveness #Sorry #Sorrow

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.
-- Claudia Black

#Forgiveness #Letting Go #Forgiving

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
-- Confucius

#Positive #Forgiveness #Attitude

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
-- Confucius

#Forgiveness #Letting Go #Forgiving

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
-- Confucius

#Inspirational #Forgiveness #Yoga

Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
-- Confucius

#Relationship #Forgiveness #Faith

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
-- Coretta Scott King

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Inspirational #Forgiveness #Heart

Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple, you will remember that to get the bell ringing you have to tug awhile. Once it has begun to ring, you merely maintain the momentum. As long as you keep pulling, the bell keeps ringing. Forgiveness is letting go of the rope. It is just that simple. But when you do so, the bell keeps ringing. Momentum is still at work. However, if you keep your hands off the rope, the bell will begin to slow and eventually stop.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Forgiveness #Letting Go #Country

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Forgiveness #Dream #Children

Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
-- Dalai Lama

#Forgiveness #Adversity #Forgiving

When the doctrine of repentance is fully understood then it is seen that repentance is all that ever needs to be taught for repentance means not only to stop doing those things which are wrong but to start doing those things which are right.
-- Daniel H. Ludlow

#Forgiveness #Mean #Needs

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
-- Dar Williams

#Forgiveness #Night #Needs

Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness.
-- Darren Johnson

#Forgiveness #And Love

Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.
-- Dave Hunt

#Forgiveness #Appreciation #Our Love

People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we?
-- David Rakoff

#Forgiveness #People #Giving

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.
-- Deb Caletti

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Want

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.
-- Debbie Ford

#Forgiveness #Poison #Drink

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Forgiveness #Resentment #Holding On