Forgiveness Quotes

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Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level. — Edward Albert
Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily… — D. Patrick Miller
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts. — Mary Boykin Chesnut
A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that problems… — Harold S. Kushner
You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission. — Richard Branson
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday. — Wayne Dyer
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully. — Zoe Akins
Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience. — Gary Zukav
Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness. — Pope Francis
Families will always have their trials; be living examples of love, forgiveness, and care — Pope Francis
In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings. — Billy Graham
Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted. — Meher Baba
Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation… — Eckhart Tolle
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. — Charles Caleb Colton
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to… — Mahatma Gandhi
The more people know, the more they forgive. — Confucius
In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth,… — Khalil Gibran
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? — Thomas Stearns Eliot
On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute. — Abraham Lincoln
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ... This alone is Life, Joy, Empire, Victory. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness. — Albert Ellis
To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic. — Albert Ellis
Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others. — Democritus
Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or… — Aristotle

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