Forgiveness Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.

  Henry George Bohn

  Vengeance

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• Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Forgiving, Enemy

  John Dryden (1882). “Dramatic works”

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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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• Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  Interview with Ken Page, www.psychologytoday.com. January 22, 2012.

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• Forgiveness is God's greatest gift

  Dan Brown

  Greatest Gifts

  Dan Brown (2016). “The Da Vinci Code (The Young Adult Adaptation)”, p.361, Delacorte Press

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• We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Winning, Conquer, Tenderness

  Frederick William Robertson (1861). “Sermons ...”, p.252

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• Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.

  Catherine Ponder

  Powerful, Healing, Heal

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• The weak can never forgive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black

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• The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.

  Marion D. Hanks

  Men, God Love, Form

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• The highest result of education is tolerance.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  "Talks with Katherine Mansfield at Fontainebleau" by A. R. Orage, The Century Magazine, November 1924.

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• Forgiveness works the miracle of change.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

  Michael Jackson

  Biblical, Christ On The Cross, Crucifixion Of Christ

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• To understand everything is to forgive everything.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

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• Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.

  Mother Teresa

  Children, Adults, Prejudice

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• The cut worm forgives the plow.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Cutting, Forgiving

  William Blake (2013). “The Poetry of William Blake”, p.30, eBookIt.com

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• Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Eye, Sight, Disease

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.27, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Past, Differences, Bygones

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.88, Fordham Univ Press

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• We are to extend forgiveness to others in the same way that God did to us: Unconditionally.

  David Jeremiah

  Way

  Dr. David Jeremiah (2013). “Prayer, the Great Adventure”, p.151, Multnomah

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• Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairness...But it does allow relationships to start over. In that way, said Solzhenitsyn, we differ from all animals. It is not our capacity to think that makes us different, but our capacity to repent, and to forgive.

  Philip Yancey

  Pain, Animal, Thinking

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• Who understands much, forgives much.

  Madame de Stael

  Forgiving

  "All about Almodovar", www.theguardian.com. August 25, 1999.

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• Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Time, Brave New World

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

  Jim Henson

  Good Life, Enjoy Life, Forgiving

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

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• Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Believe, Thinking, Soul

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