Break Quote by Sydney J. Harris

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done.…

— Dag Hjalmar Agn Carl Hammarskjold

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore,…

— Dag Hammarskjold

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

— Sydney J. Harris

When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.

— Joyce Brothers

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 always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

— Timothy Keller

In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

— Jack Kornfield

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

— George MacDonald

...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver… From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was…

— Timothy Keller

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

— Desmond Tutu

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

Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and…

— Philip Yancey