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Forgiveness Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
- The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that…
- I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive…
- There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and…
- Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
- Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
- Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not…
- To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter,…
- 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.
- Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the…
- Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
- To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
- You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or…
- And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no…
- I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only…
- We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in…
- We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
- Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
- Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
More Forgiveness Quotes
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from… — Saint Augustine
- Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. — Francis Bacon
- This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. — Francis Bacon
- I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist. — Alan Ball
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
- One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed. — Bernard Baruch
- I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while… — Mario Batali