We Forgive Quotes

76 quotes by 55 authors

You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing… — Lewis B. Smedes
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released. — Reshad Feild
We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we… — Joel Osteen
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live. — Madame de Stael
Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depths… — Rumi
Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all. — Lewis B. Smedes
Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past. — Jack Kornfield
When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens. — Louise Hay
When thereâ€™s only God to blame, we forgive him. When itâ€™s our fellow man, we destroy him. — Hugh Howey
What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain… — Kurt Vonnegut
When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with… — Lewis B. Smedes
Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick… — Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we… — Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave… — Gary Smalley
You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit.… — Jodi Picoult
We have been forgiven so much that nothing we forgive compares to the amount we have been forgiven. — Nicky Gumbel
Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves. — C.S. Lewis
We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds. — Lewis Hyde

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