Some Quotes on Forgiveness

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds

on the heal that has crushed it.

--Mark Twain

 

The weak can never forgive.

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

 

We are all full of weakness and errors;

let us mutually pardon each other our follies

--Voltaire

 

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness

forces you to grow beyond what you were.

--Cherie Carter-Scott

 

The offender never pardons. --George Herbert

 

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over

which he himself must pass.

--George Herbert

 

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a

man drinks; then he sits down and waits for

his enemy to die.

—Unknown

 

Many people are afraid to forgive because they

feel they must remember the wrong or they will

not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through

forgiveness, the wrong is released from its

emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn

from it. Through the power and intelligence of the

heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded

intelligence to work with the situation more

effectively. -- David McArthur & Bruce McArthur

 

 

Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let

it keep festering inside even if it only comes up

once in awhile.

--Doc Childre and Howard Martin

 

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations

that the other person apologize or change. Don't

worry whether or not they finally understand you.

Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth

to people in its own way and time—just like it does

for you and me.

--Sara Paddison

 

Forgiveness is giving up the possibility of a

better past. --Unknown

 

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 a funny thing. It warms the heart and

cools the sting. --William A. Ward

 

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you

recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish

them well.

--Lewis B. Smedes

 

 

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive

a friend.

--William Blake

 

 

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes;

it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for

having witnessed your own.

--Jessamyn West

 

 

Forgiveness is . . . accepting God's sovereign use

of people and situations to strip you of self

importance, and humiliate your self love.

--Martha Kilpatrick

 

Without deep humility, true forgiveness is impossible…

and will never happen. --Martha Kilpatrick

 

Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt

you for hurting me. --Anonymous

 

 

Never does the human soul appear so strong as

when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive

an injury. --E. H. Chapin

 

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make

friends of them?-- Abraham Lincoln

 

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

-- Josh Billings

 

Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them

so much.-- Oscar Wilde

 

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

 

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 is choosing to love. It is the first

skill of self-giving love. --Mahatma Gandhi

 

A happy marriage is the union of two good

forgivers. --Robert Quillen

 

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

 

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

--Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

Never forget the three powerful resources you

always have available to you: love, prayer,

and forgiveness. --H. Jackson Brown

 

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the

receiving, of life. --George MacDonald

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NamasteNovalees and Chrism. . .thanks for the quotes and information on forgiveness. . . they both have great points. . . there is such release with forgiveness. . . .i really liked this quote, simple but so true. . ."To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you." author unknown from Chrism's post. . . .So true on the other side of forgiveness the air is so much fresher. . .Thanks and honorordinary sparrow , "novalees" <dhyana wrote:>> Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds > on the heal that has crushed it.> --Mark Twain> >