Forgiveness Quotes - Page 17

• To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

  Horace Mann

  Inspiring, Compassion, Charity

  Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.297

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• The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Voice, Sin, Loud

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• Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

  William Penn

  Winning, Forgiving, May

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.166

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• I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

  Cato the Elder

  Mistake, Pardon, My Own

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• The heart has always the pardoning power.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Heart

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• No matter what your past has been, your future is spotless.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Past, Matter, Your Future

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• I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.

  Elizabeth Lowell

  Perfect, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  Elizabeth Lowell, Barbara McCauley (2003). “Summer Gold”, Silhouette

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• Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.

  Zoe Akins

  Cost Of Living, Cost, Forget

  Zoë Akins (1937). “The Hills Grow Smaller: Poems”

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• What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Mind, Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1539, Manonmani Publishers

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• Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

  Karl Kraus

  Forgiving, Lord, Knows

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.117, University of Illinois Press

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• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Peace

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• You have been forgiven, so act like it!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Forgiven, Has Beens

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• You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Children, Forgiving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3536, Manonmani Publishers

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• it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

  Mary McCarthy

  Forgiving, Enemy, Easier

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• After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

  T. S. Eliot

  Corridors

  "Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

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• Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

  Helene D. Gayle

  Moving, Forgiving, Forgive Yourself

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• It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.
  [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen
  Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]

  Peter Winter

  Forgiving, Godlike

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• Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

  Rene Char

  Men, Who Cares, He Man

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• Nobody`s Perfect

  Miley Cyrus

  Perfect, Nobody's Perfect

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• Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Letting Go, Hurt, Forgiving

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• We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Deals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.341, Library of America

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• I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.

  Beth Revis

  Im Sorry, Apology, Two

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• Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Letting Go, Practice, Forward In Life

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.58, Celestial Arts

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• You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Leadership, World

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• If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Practice, Teeth

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