Character Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“...forgiveness is not a condoning of the unskillful act which has caused injury, but a touching of the actor with mercy and loving kindness. ”

— Stephen Levine

“Forgiveness takes a great deal of personal strength. A weak person cannot forgive, and their actions will keep them captive and fester like an…

— K.M. Shea

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

— Samuel Richardson

When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you.

— John O'Donohue

Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.

— Paul J. Meyer

“nothing can be more noble or approach the Divine nature more closely than to forgive those who injure us, and to return good for…

— Dom Lorenzo Scupoli

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

— Timothy Keller

Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves to release us from the shackles of our past. The pain of those who wounded us may…

— Jaeda DeWalt

Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“If you cannot forgive because of hurt inflicted by others, you will be unwilling to be vulnerable for fear of being hurt again. Because…

— Walter A. Henrichsen