Forgiveness

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Quotes on Forgiveness

 

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

 

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has

crushed it. ~Mark Twain

 

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for

breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich

 

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

Hopper

 

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the

strong. ~Mahatma Gandhi

 

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner

was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes, " Forgiveness - The Power to Change the

Past, " Christianity Today, 7 January 1983 (Thanks, Donna)

 

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the

sting. ~William Arthur Ward

 

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the

future. ~Paul Boese

 

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was

patched. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

 

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William

Blake, Jerusalem

 

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ~Isaac Friedmann

 

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

~Harriet Nelson

 

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must

pass. ~George Herbert

 

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a

marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris

 

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other

good. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S.

Merwin

 

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. ~Mignon

McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

 

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you

twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a

doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost

unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the

wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's

rule. ~Lewis B. Smedes

 

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ~Josh Billings

 

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of

resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli

 

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and

forget. ~Franklin P. Jones

 

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes

revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin

 

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar

Wilde