Forgiveness Quotes - Page 21

• Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.

  Suzanne Somers

  Pain, Feel Better, Forgiving

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• Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

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• Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.

  Gautama Buddha

  Forgiving, Forget, Forgiven

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• Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.

  David Jeremiah

  Jesus, Faults, Forfeit

  Dr. David Jeremiah (2013). “Prayer, the Great Adventure”, p.148, Multnomah

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• God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Wish, Who We Are, Worst

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• If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Jesus, Forgiving, Crosses

  Anne Graham Lotz (2009). “Just Give Me Jesus”, p.224, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

  Garrison Keillor

  Mistake, Lakes, Forget

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.221, Penguin

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• Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Friendship, Teamwork

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• When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

  Tyler Perry

  Hurt, Walking Forward, Forgiving

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• When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

  Richard Holloway

  Human Experience, Humans, Happens

  Richard Holloway (2002). “On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable?”, p.12, Canongate Books

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• But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

  William Golding

  Given

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• "He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix. 2). God allowed him to fall, because He meant to make him ruler over the whole world, that, remembering his own fall, he might forgive those who should slip in the future. And that what I have said is no guess, listen to Christ Himself saying: 'Simon, Simon, etc.'"

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Fall, Forgiving, World

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• There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

  Charles Simmons

  Doe, Noble, Remember

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• I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

  Paul Simon

  Heart, Envy, Soul

  Song: Wartime Prayers

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• We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

  Thomas Merton

  Hate, Compassion, Patient

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• It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hurt, Thinking, Persons

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• Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Angel, Fighting, Forgiving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3688, Manonmani Publishers

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• Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

  George W. Bush

  Grief, Remembrance, Hatred

  Remarks at the National Day of Prayer & Remembrance Service, delivered 14 September 2001, Episcopal National Cathedral

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• Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

  Norman Cousins

  Happy Birthday, Recycling

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• Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

  Louis Dudek

  Law, Forgiving, Lasts

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• My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.

  J. Lynn

  Im Sorry, Guy, Brain

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• God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Perpetrators, Giver

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.56, Penguin

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• Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

  Ding Ling

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Able

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• Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.

  Phil Ochs

  Evil, Done, World

  Song: We Seek No Wider War

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• I never forgive, but I always forget.

  Arthur Balfour

  Forgiving, Never Forget, Forgetfulness

  In R. Blake Conservative Party (1970) ch. 7

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