Forgiving Quotes - Page 4

• Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water

  Sarah McLachlan

  Water, Lifts

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

  Joan Lunden

  Forgiveness, Anger, Heart

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

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• The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Forgiveness, Heart, Hatred

  Lawana Blackwell (2008). “The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark (The Gresham Chronicles Book #3)”, p.443, Baker Books

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• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Enemy, Conquer

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• I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

  Chaim Herzog

  Forgiveness, Forget The Past, Forgetfulness

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• Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Pain, Memories

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• Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.

  Max Lucado

  Opportunity, Giving, Lasts

  Max Lucado (2007). “Every Day Deserves a Chance: Wake Up to the Gift of 24 Hours”, p.115, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Hate, Light

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it. Forgiveness has to come from inside as a desire of the heart. Wanting to is the steam that pushes the forgiving engine.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Believe, Heart

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• Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Forgiveness, Dream, Children

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• God will forgive me. It's his job.

  Heinrich Heine

  Forgiveness, Jobs, Crazy

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• The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Happiness, Forgiveness, Spiritual

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Forgiveness is the final form of love.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Love, Forgiveness, Philosophical

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• Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Mother, Nature, Years

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• One forgives to the degree that one loves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Valentines Day, Forgiveness, Life Changing

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• It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Letting Go

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• Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

  Suzanne Somers

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Letting Go

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2013

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• Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

  Laurence Sterne

  Forgiveness, Brave, Coward

  "Sermons" by Laurence Sterne, vol. I, No. 12, 1760.

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• Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Forgiveness

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• The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

  Marianne Williamson

  Forgiveness, Firsts, Steps

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.131, Random House

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• Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

  J. K. Rowling

  Forgiveness, People, Inspirational Harry Potter

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• We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

  Ellen Goodman

  Love, Forgiveness, Gratitude

  Ellen Goodman (1981). “At Large”

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• To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

  Robert Muller

  Love, Happiness, Beautiful

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• Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

  Antonio Porchia

  Forgiveness, Evil, Forgiving Others

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• To err is human, to forgive supine.

  S. J. Perelman

  Forgiveness, Humans, Err Is Human

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