Forgiveness Quotes

2479 Forgiveness quotes by 1209 unique authors

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. — Les Brown
Forgive those who have hurt you. — Les Brown
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. — Jean de la Bruyere
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make… — Samuel Butler
God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families... When a man and a woman come… — Kirk Cameron
I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah,… — Kirk Cameron
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. — Albert Camus
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me. — Jimmy Carter
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side,… — Willa Cather
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. — Eldridge Cleaver
In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all… — Hillary Clinton
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. — Maya Angelou
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I… — Maya Angelou
I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy… — Odette Annable
Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be… — Zig Ziglar
I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry. — Unknown Author
God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same. — Mary Chapin Carpenter
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. — Juvenal
You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory. — Janet Jackson
I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through. — Paul Simon
Forgiveness is not a one-time-only event. It is a process. — Rhonda Britten

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