Forgiveness Quotes And Sayings

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“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”
– Hannah More

“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”
– Reinhold Niebuhr

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
– Mark Twain

“Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.”
– Saint Augustine

“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.”
– Gerald Jampolsky

“Forgotten is forgiven.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.”
– Watchman Nee

“Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.”
– Alice Duer Miller

“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“God will forgive me, that’s his business.”
– Heinrich Heine

“He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.”
– Thomas Fuller

“How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. ”
– Jean Paul

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“I never forgive, but I always forget.”
– Arthur Balfour

“If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long. ”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“If I cast up a confessed, repented, and forsaken sin against another, and allow my remembrance of that sin to colour my thinking and feed my suspicions, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
– Amy Carmichael

“If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see. ”
– Spanish proverb

“If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn’t pay Smith.”
– Robert G. Ingersoll

“If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.”
– Khalil Gibran

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If you take care of yourself and walk with integrity, you may be confident that God will deal with those who sin against you. Above all, don’t give birth to sin yourself; rather, pray for those who persecute you. God will one day turn your persecution into praise.”
– Warren Wiersbe

“In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action. ”
– Hannah Arendt

“It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.”
– Karl Barth

“It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.”
– Francis of Assisi

“It’s far easier to forgive an enemy after you’ve got even with him.”
– Olin Miller

“Know all and you will pardon all.”
– Thomas a Kempis

“Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. ”
– Lord Chesterfield

“Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn’t not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf. ”
– Confucius

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
– Bruce Lee

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