Abandon Quote by Desmond Tutu

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

— Lewis B. Smedes

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

— Desmond Tutu

To forgive is to set someone free.

— Suzanne Selfors

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

— Max Lucado

Sometimes we forgive others simply because we still want them in our life.

— Nishan Panwar

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

— Timothy Keller

To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.

— Marshall Sylver

Forgiving someone who've done you wrong or didn't treat you right could mean that you are allowing yourself to end up away from bitterness.

— April T Pascua

Forgiveness essentially means giving up your right to make other people pay for the wrongs they have committed against you.

— Steve Stephens

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

— Josh Billings

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest…

— Marianne Williamson

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

— Robert Breault