Forgiveness Quotes And Sayings

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“Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores – more than abundantly – what it takes away.”
– Jim Elliot

“Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.”
– William Blake

“My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!”
– Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

“Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.”
– Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.”
– J.C. Ryle

“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
– Marlene Dietrich

“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. …works have a place–but as a demonstration of having received God’s forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.”
– Ravi Zacharias

“Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. ”
– Laurence Sterne

“People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.”
– Bill Cosby

“Pity, forbearance, long-sufferance, fair interpretation, excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the gentlest sentence, are certainly our duty; and he that does not so is an unjust person.”
– Jeremy Taylor

“Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.”
– Sara Paddison

“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”
– Garrison Keillor

“The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don’t have to play defensive games anymore. We don’t have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.”
– Jerry Bridges

“The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful –because the reproached self isn’t abandoned; it remains intact. ”
– Aldous Huxley

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ”
– Honore de Balzac

“The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.”
– Marquis de Sade

“The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.”
– Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

“The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“The offender never pardons.”
– George Herbert

“The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.”
– Louis Johannot

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
– Thomas S. Szasz

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time. ”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ”
– Josh Billings

“There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled? ”
– Sophocles

“There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point of all goodness. It comes bringing with it, if not the freshness of innocence, yet a glow of inspiration that nerves feeble hands for hard tasks, a fire of hope that lights anew the old high ideal, so that it stands before the eye in clear relief, beckoning to make it out on its own.”
– Charles H. Brent

“This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.”
– Sir Francis Bacon

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
– Alexander Pope

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