Forgiveness Quotes And Sayings

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

“Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace”
– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

“Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave”
– Ivern Ball

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

“Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev’n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened–Man’s forgiveness give and take!”
– Omar Khayyam

“People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right.”
– Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary’s heart to him doth tie: And ’tis a firmer conquest, truly said, To win the heart than overthrow the head.”
– Lady Elizabeth Carew (Cary or Carey)

“The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing”
– George Bernard Shaw

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”
– Bryant H. McGill

“These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.”
– John Milton

“Thou whom avenging pow’rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay) Before the sad accounting day.”
– Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon Quotes

“To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.”
– Tillotson

“To be social is to be forgiving”
– Robert Frost

“To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none”
– Seneca

“To forgive is human, to forget divine. . .”
– James Grand

“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
– Robert Muller

“To love is human, it is also human to forgive. [Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]”
– Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)

“True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.”
– David Ridge

“We achieve inner health only through forgiveness – the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves”
– Joshua Loth Liebman

“When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive”
– Alan Paton

“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
– Catherine Ponder

“Without forgiveness, there’s no future”
– Desmond Tutu

“You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.”
– Sara Paddison

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