Forgiving Quotes

1882 Forgiving quotes by 1110 unique authors

When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer… — Jean Vanier
Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone… — Marianne Williamson
We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not… — Charles Stanley
To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is… — Charles Spurgeon
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything. — Leo Tolstoy
Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself. — Louise Hay
The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive! — William Wordsworth
By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but… — Caroline Myss
From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive. — Molly Ringwald
Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and… — Paramahansa Yogananda
I can forgive but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive. — Henry Ward Beecher
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. — Mother Teresa
God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and… — Richard Salter Storrs
When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me. — Reba McEntire
I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I… — Ray Bradbury
It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong… — Fausto Cercignani
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget. — Maria Edgeworth
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him. — Cesare Pavese
To love is human, it is also human to forgive. — Plautus
It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. — Unknown Author
Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some slight you feel,… — Jimmy Carter
For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
To err is human, to forgive supine. — S. J. Perelman
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. — Logan Pearsall Smith

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