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Forgiveness

Forgotten is forgiven.

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Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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.

Butler, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

Chesterfield, Lord

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

Real Live Preacher

Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.

Proverb

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Boese, Paul

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.

Real Live Preacher

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Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.

Al-massabaih, Mishkat

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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Szasz, Thomas

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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

15.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

Heine, Heinrich

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

Real Live Preacher

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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.

Proverb, Spanish

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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Lauter

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I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. [Ephesians 1:7]

Bible

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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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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

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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. [Ephesians 4:32]

Bible

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.

Higginson, Ella

39.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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Forgotten is forgiven.

44.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Camus, Albert

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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.

Augustine, St.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.

Wilde, Oscar

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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Bacon, Francis