Forgiveness Quotes - Page 24

• Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

  Madame de Stael

  Understanding, Forgiving

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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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• Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

  Carrie Fisher

  Revenge, May, Consciousness

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• The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

  Immaculee Ilibagiza

  World, Bigs, Huge

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• There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Embrace, Divine, Ready

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• In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life.

  Anne Truitt

  Kindness, Mean, Character

  Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement.

  Faith Baldwin

  Thinking, Achievement, Forgive And Forget

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• Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.

  Barbara Wood

  Summer, Dog, Children

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• Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

  Billy Graham

  Forgiving, Doe, Betray

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.

  Billy Graham

  Practice, Forgiving, Return

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.144, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.

  Billy Graham

  Forgiving, Sin, Forget

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.28, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

  Catherine the Great

  Work, Teaching, Forgive Me

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• You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

  John Knox

  Action, Influence

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• Forgive yourself first. Let go of past hurts and direct your spirit to goodness and hope by having gratitude.

  Janet Taylor Spence

  Letting Go, Gratitude, Hurt

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• 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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• Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Mistake, Church, Made

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• A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

  Joan Lunden

  Anger, Heart, Forgiving

  Joan Lunden (2001). “Wake-up calls”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Forgiving, Enemy, Sun

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.31

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• May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

  Charles Dickens

  Forgiving, Done, May

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Ghost Stories”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

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• The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.

  Frederic Reynolds

  Forgiving, Mind, Lasts

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• Men are less forgiving than women.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Forgiving

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• No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

  John Bunyan

  Children, Degrees, Sin

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.858, Delphi Classics

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• But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't.

  Heather Gudenkauf

  Im Sorry, Regret, Should

  Heather Gudenkauf (2016). “The Weight of Silence”, p.40, Harlequin

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• Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.

  Dave Hunt

  Appreciation, Our Love, His Love

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• If we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole being to feel good. To hold a grudge against anyone is like carrying the devil on your shoulders. It is our willingness to forgive and forget that casts away such a burden and brings light into our hearts, freeing us from many ill feelings against our fellow human beings.

  Sydney Banks

  Heart, Light, Feel Good

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