Kamis, 04 November 2010

Forgiveness Quotes



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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. --George MacDonald
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.--Henry Ward Beecher
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.-- Mahatma Gandhi
Know all and you will pardon all. --Thomas A’Kempis
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies
--Voltaire
A mature Christian has capacity to absorb the offenses and weaknesses of others, not just demand they perform up to the code of ideals. --Stephen Crosby
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.—Unknown
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. --Cherie Carter-Scott
The offender never pardons. --George Herbert
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.--George Herbert
Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.—Unknown
Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively. -- David McArthur & Bruce McArthur
A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit. --Hannah More
Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. --Doc Childre and Howard Martin
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. --Sara Paddison
Forgiveness is giving up the possibility of a better past. --Unknown
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
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. -Sholem Asch
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. --William A. Ward
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
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. --Mignon McLaughlin
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. --William Blake:
We frequently forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those whom we bore. –Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. --Jessamyn West
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
--Lord Chesterfield
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. --Logan Pearsall Smith
Forgiveness is . . . accepting God's sovereign use of people and situations to strip you of self importance, and humiliate your self love. --Martha Kilpatrick
Without deep humility, true forgiveness is impossible…and will never happen. --Martha Kilpatrick
Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me. --Anonymous
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
--Mark Twain
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. --E. H. Chapin
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?-- Abraham Lincoln
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.-- Josh Billings

Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.-- Oscar Wilde
To err is human; to forgive, divine.-- Alexander Pope
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. --Jean Paul Richter
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. --William Blake
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. --Antonio Porchia
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. --Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. --Mahatma Gandhi
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck . . . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. --Ellen Goodman
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. --Robert Quillen
Forgiveness is the final form of love. --Reinhold Niebuhr
One forgives to the degree that one loves. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. --John Sheffield

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