Quotes
Quotes about Forgiveness
Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [Lat., Aequum est Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus.]
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!
For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called Forgiveness!
Forgiveness is better than revenge.
Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet which still clings fast to the heel that crushed it.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. See our article: Forgiveness - A Real Stress Buster -Ed Howe.
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.
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-just like it does for you and me. David McArthur & Bruce McArthur -Sara Paddison.
Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Mahatma Gandhi.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.
Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.
