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2479 Forgiveness quotes by 1209 unique authors
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Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it…
— Joel Osteen
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Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.
— Joel Osteen
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Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people that did you…
— Joel Osteen
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In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. Let us not…
— David E. Sorensen
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I am responsible for what I see. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. I could see peace instead of THIS. The past…
— Hugh Prather
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Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.
— Nhat Hanh
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The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
— Confucius
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When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go…
— Dean Ornish
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A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.
— Glenn Close
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There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.
— Jeanette Winterson
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I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah
— Rabia Basri
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God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness,…
— Marva Dawn
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Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our…
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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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.…
— Anne Truitt
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I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the…
— Faith Baldwin
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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…
— Barbara Wood
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The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no…
— Ernest Hemingway
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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,…
— Billy Graham
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We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn…
— Billy Graham
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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
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Essential to receiving divine forgiveness are personal, individual recognition and acceptance of our Father's mercy, made available to us by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus…
— Ronald E. Poelman
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I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
— Catherine the Great
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There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and…
— Desmond Tutu
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"Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness-adoption into His family- fellowship with His people-freedom from the penalty of sin-…
— Billy Graham
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In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which…
— John Updike
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