Forgiven Quotes - Page 3

• Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself

  T. D. Jakes

  Forgiveness, Giving, Inspirational Forgiveness

  T.D. Jakes (2012). “Before You Do: Making Great Decisions That You Won't Regret”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

  Antonio Porchia

  Forgiveness, Evil, Forgiving

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

  Princess Diana

  Happiness, Forgiveness, Girly

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• Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

  J. K. Rowling

  Forgiveness, People, Forgiving

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• Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

  Paul Tillich

  Forgiveness, Acceptance, Our Love

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.10, U of Nebraska Press

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  To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2016

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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 cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Two

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1860). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.108

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  People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Moving On, Forgiveness

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

  Alan Paton

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Done

  Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Thank You, Forgiveness, Thankful

  "Is It Too Late Now To Say Sorry? The Power of Forgiveness" by Margaret Hession, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2017.

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  A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

  Ruth Graham

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Forgiving, May, Calvary

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “Spurgeon's Sermon Notes”, p.213, Kregel Publications

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• Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, People, Risk

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• Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

  Hannah More

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Expenses

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.639

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• You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

  E. W. Howe

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology

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• It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

  Patty Duke

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Grieving

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• 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

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Laughter

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• One forgives to the degree that one loves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Valentines Day, Forgiveness, Life Changing

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• As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

  Isabelle Holland

  Forgiveness, Space, Long

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• Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Forgiving

  Francis Bacon (1861). “Literary and Professional Works”, p.154

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• Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

  Alice Miller

  Forgiveness, Anger, Doe

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.248, Macmillan

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• There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Forgiveness, Heartbroken, Site

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