Forgiveness Quotes - Page 10

• I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Mrs Bennet, Forgiving

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.16

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• What if this cursed hand
  Were thicker than itself with brother's blood
  Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves
  To wash it white as snow?

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Brother, Rain

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Knight (1847). “Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”

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• Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Time, Revenge, Wine

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.35, Penguin

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• Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple, you will remember that to get the bell ringing you have to tug awhile. Once it has begun to ring, you merely maintain the momentum. As long as you keep pulling, the bell keeps ringing. Forgiveness is letting go of the rope. It is just that simple. But when you do so, the bell keeps ringing. Momentum is still at work. However, if you keep your hands off the rope, the bell will begin to slow and eventually stop.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Letting Go, Country, Simple

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• 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!

  Omar Khayyam

  Men, Snakes, Giving

  Omar Khayyam (2009). “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.111, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Forgiving, Inspirational Harry Potter

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

  Garrison Keillor

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.17, Penguin

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• Know all and you will pardon all.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Pardon, Knows

  "Imitation of Christ". Book by: Thomas a Kempis,

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• How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

  Publilius Syrus

  Life, Sad, Forgiving

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• The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Past, Names, Forgiving

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• Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Cost, Merit

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.32, Penguin

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• A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Forgiving, Loser, Winner

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, People, Giving

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• Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

  Petrarch

  Peace, Anger, Ambition

  "De vita solitaria". Book by Francesco Petrarca, 1346.

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• A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

  Robert Fripp

  Mistake, What Is Forgiveness

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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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• If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Memories, Mind, Forgiving

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• Do not stop praying as long as, by God's grace, the fire and the water have not been exhausted, for it may happen that never again in your whole life will you have such a chance to ask for the forgiveness for your sins.

  John Climacus

  Fire, Long, Water

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• Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Scar, Score

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• Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were the ones people gave to my children. Wrong my kids, you wrong me. And my hurt qualifies me to forgive you. But only for the pain you caused me when you wounded them. My children alone are qualified to forgive you for what you did to them.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Hurt, Pain, Children

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• How many times should you forgive your household bruiser? You should not even think about forgiving him. Not yet. Not as long as he has his foot on your neck. Your problem at this point is not forgiving. Your problem is how to get out of his reach. Once you get away from him, you can think about forgiving him.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Thinking, Feet, Long

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• Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can't get him out, get help. It's available. In the meantime, don't let him near the kids, and don't let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There's an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Husband, Children, Mean

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• The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Self, Proud

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

  Ann Landers

  Moving On, Letting Go, Heartbroken

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