Forgiveness Quotes - Page 12

• The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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  It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

  Grace Hopper

  Peace, Apology, Asking Permission

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• If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Peace, Anger, World Suffering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• When anger rises, think of the consequences.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Yoga, Anger

  "The Sacred Edict: Containing Sixteen Maxims of the Emperor Kang-He". Book by Yu-p'u Wang (p. 298), 1817.

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• Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

  Kin Hubbard

  Forget, Buried, Hatchet

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• One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Forgiving, Doe, Obvious

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• A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Sacrifice, Forgiving, Done

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• I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Forgiving, Sin

  Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.96, Wordsworth Editions

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• To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

  John F. Kennedy

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• A man must learn to forgive himself.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Inspirational, Men, Forgiving

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• When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

  Rob Bell

  Love, Inspirational, Generosity

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• Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

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• Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.

  Joyce Brothers

  Forgiving, Together, Weakness

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• The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off by every act of vengeance always takes its unhindered course. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain...Why do family feuds go on and on?...the reason is simple: no two people, no two families, ever weigh pain on the same scale.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Pain, Revenge, Simple

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• The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.

  Princess Diana

  Mistake, Long, Forgiving

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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

  Hurt, Laughter, Anger

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• The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Men, Forgiving, Literature

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• Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

  Seamus Heaney

  Sea, Forgiving, Loser

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• If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

  Bill Vaughan

  Enemy, Thankfulness, Able

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• For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter
  Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Earth, Letters

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.576

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• Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
  To err is human, to forgive, divine.

  Alexander Pope

  Forgiving, Divine, Good Nature

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “Poetical Works”, p.22

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• If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Hurt, Memories, Heart

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• Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Anger, Annoying, Annoyance

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• God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Past, Forgiving, Way

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