Forgiveness Quotes And Sayings

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“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
– Lewis B. Smedes

“To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.”
– Quentin Crisp

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“To understand is to forgive, even oneself.”
– Alexander Chase

“We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. ”
– Samuel Butler

“We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We pardon to the extent that we love. ”
– François de La Rochefoucauld

“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”
– Sir Francis Bacon

“We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.”
– Frederick W. Robertson

“When God forgives, He at once restores.”
– Theodore Epp

“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”
– Emo Philips

“When we stray from His presence, He longs for you to come back. He weeps that you are missing out on His love, protection and provision. He throws His arms open, runs toward you, gathers you up, and welcomes you home.”
– Charles Stanley

“When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.”
– Bernard Meltzer

“Wherever God pardons sin, he subdues it… If the fetters of sin be broken off, and we walk at liberty in the ways of God, this is a blessed sign we are pardoned.”
– Thomas Watson

“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
– Lewis B. Smedes

“Bear and forbear.”
– Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“For ’tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal’s language;–on earth it is called Forgiveness!”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
– Paul Boese

“Forgiveness is better than revenge.”
– Pittacus of Mitylene

“Forgiveness is the oil of relationships”
– Josh McDowell

“Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.”
– Isaac Friedmann

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

“Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne’er pardon who have done the wrong.”
– John Dryden

“Good, to forgive; Best to forget.”
– Robert Browning

“He who forgives readily only invites offense. [Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.]”
– Pierre Corneille

“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
– Adlai Stevenson

“I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.”
– Chaim Herzog

“I pardon him as God shall pardon me.”
– William Shakespeare

“It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [Lat., Aequum est Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus.]”
– Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

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