Forgiveness Quotes - Page 36

• There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Im Sorry, Havens, Right Words

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.61, St. Martin's Press

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• Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Motivational, Wisdom, Heart

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• The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Moving On, Letting Go

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• Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.549, Macmillan

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• Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Boys, Guy, Bars

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.195, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Law, Forgiving, Followers

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• We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mercy Of God, Vices, May

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.180, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Lapses, Half, Granted

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.14, CLC Publications

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• It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

  Elizabeth George

  Healing, Maturity, Grace

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• After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Grief, Joy, Sin

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, p.191, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Asking for forgiveness from others in a scriptural manner involves acknowledging that you have sinned against them and that you desire mercy and pardon (not to be given what you deserve). Asking for forgiveness is vital for reconciliation and may lead to the difference in the relationship.

  John C. Broger

  Differences, Desire, Asking

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• Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

  Desmond Tutu

  Spiritual, Real, World

  "The Truth About Forgiveness" by Wendy Strgar, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2010.

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• For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray - that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis we shall receive the eternal verdict.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Comforting, Forgiving, Way

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• This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Winning, Blood, Saint

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• I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Friendship, Forgiving

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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• Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

  Charles Fillmore

  Life Changing, Night, Ill Will

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• Don't let the sun go down on me.

  Elton John

  Anger, Angry Man, Rejection

  Song: Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me, 1974

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• Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on

  Criss Jami

  Moving, Character, Broken

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

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• Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

  Joan Lunden

  Hurt, Laughter, Anger

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• Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  New Beginnings, Mean, Creating

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

  Kedar Joshi

  Men, Pearls, Beast

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• The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

  Marianne Moore

  Hate

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.136, Penguin

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• In a man they forgive anything. In a woman nothing.

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Acceptance, Men, Forgiving

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• There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Forgiving, Faults

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.72

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• Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

  Honore de Balzac

  Bears, Debtors, Trouble

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