Forgiveness Quotes - Page 11

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

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

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• Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

  Dar Williams

  Night, Needs, Sometimes

  Song: My Friends

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• Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Long, Abuse, Desire

  "Introduction to the Devout Life".

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• We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.

  Louise Hay

  Healing, Practice, Forgiving

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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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• 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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• 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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• You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you've got and remember what you had...Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on.

  Unknown

  Sad Love, Regret, Mistake

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• Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Moving On, Letting Go

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

  Josh Billings

  Jobs, Men, Forgiving

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• Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Fun, Faults

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it. Forgiveness has to come from inside as a desire of the heart. Wanting to is the steam that pushes the forgiving engine.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Believe, Heart, People

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• The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, conform over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  God, Christian, Religious

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Sep 01, 2014

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• Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave washing away a message in the sand. Second, forgiveness involves caring for the offending person because most people who offend us have something in their own heart that needs healing. When we forgive others, they are released from our anger and we are healed by God.

  Gary Smalley

  God, Christian, Anger

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

  Jean Vanier

  Love, Love Is, Endless

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• Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

  Joseph Jacobs

  Lessons, Moral, Difficult

  Joseph Jacobs (1896). “Jewish Ideals: And Other Essays”

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• The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee." It says at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more.

  Horatius Bonar

  Effort, Doe, Sin

  Horatius Bonar (1857). “The story of grace ...”, p.63

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• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

  Robert Frost

  Life, God, Fools Day

  In the Clearing (1962) "Cluster of Faith"

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• Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

  Josh McDowell

  Relationship, Oil, Love Relationship

  Ed Stewart, Josh McDowell (2000). “Resolving Conflict”, Thomas Nelson

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• 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.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Silly, Pride, Men

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• What power has love but forgiveness?

  William Carlos Williams

  Power Of Forgiveness

  Oriole Farb Feshbach, William Carlos Williams (1991). “Illuminations: images by Oriole Farb Feshbach for the poem "Asphodel, that greeny flower" by William Carlos Williams”, Midmarch Arts Pr

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• What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Forgiving, Power Of Forgiveness, Forgiven

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.78, BookBaby

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• Jesus lived a life of peace, love, kindness and forgiveness, during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, may we all do our best to follow his example.

  Barack Obama

  Love, Life, Jesus

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• To err is human, to forgive supine.

  S. J. Perelman

  Forgiving, Humans, Err Is Human

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• Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

  Henri Nouwen

  Names, People, Forgiving

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