Forgiveness Quotes

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Forgiveness Quotes 001 – 100

1. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

^{Martin Luther King, Jr.}

2. Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

^{Bruce Lee}

3. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

^{Mahatma Gandhi}

4. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

^{Lewis B. Smedes}

5. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

^{Mark Twain}

6. Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

^{Oscar Wilde}

7. Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

^{H. Jackson Brown, Jr.}

8. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

^{John F. Kennedy}

9. The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

^{Thomas Szasz}

10. To err is human; to forgive, divine.

^{Alexander Pope}

11. It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

^{Maya Angelou}

12. There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

^{Josh Billings}

13. Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

^{Desmond Tutu}

14. 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}

15. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

^{Harriet Beecher Stowe}

16. It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

^{Tyler Perry}

17. Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

^{Scott Adams}

18. When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.

^{Bernard Meltzer}

19. Forgiveness is the final form of love.

^{Reinhold Niebuhr}

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

^{Thomas Fuller}

21. Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

^{Les Brown}

22. Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

^{Robert Frost}

23. Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.

^{William Shakespeare}

24. 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}

25. We cannot embrace God’s forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

^{T. D. Jakes}

26. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

^{Francis of Assisi}

27. All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

^{Dalai Lama}

28. Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

^{Joan Lunden}

29. Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

^{Indira Gandhi}

30. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

^{William Blake}

31. Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

^{Gerald Jampolsky}

32. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

^{Norman Cousins}

33. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

^{Suzanne Somers}

34. Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

^{Billy Graham}

35. Forgiveness is God’s command.

^{Martin Luther}

36. 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}

37. We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

^{Frederick William Robertson}

38. He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

^{George Herbert}

39. Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

^{Garrison Keillor}

40. Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

^{Jane Austen}

41. Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

^{Jessica Lange}

42. It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

^{Grace Hopper}

43. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

^{Hannah More}

44. When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

^{Alan Paton}

45. Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

^{William Arthur Ward}