Forgiving Quotes - Page 6

• When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Inspirational, Change, Forgiveness

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Thank You, Forgiveness, Thankful

  "Is It Too Late Now To Say Sorry? The Power of Forgiveness" by Margaret Hession, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2017.

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• When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

  Catherine Ponder

  Relationship, Forgiveness, Emotional

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• The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

  Josh Billings

  Forgiveness, Understanding, Secret

  "Getting Married". Play by George Bernard Shaw, www.gutenberg.org. 1908.

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• If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

  Robert Frost

  Forgiveness, Long, People

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.316, Harvard University Press

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• To understand is to forgive.

  Blaise Pascal

  Forgiveness, Understanding, Comprehension

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• A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Family, Forgiveness, Wise

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.278

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• Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

  Jean Paul

  Beautiful, Forgiveness, Humanity

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• It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

  Jessamyn West

  Forgiveness, Easter, Mistake

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• You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Wish

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• Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Evil

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.7667, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Worst Enemy, Evil

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Moving On, Forgiveness, Letting Go

  Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.102, Bantam

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• Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
  forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
  the absence of profound thankfulness.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Prayer, Butterfly, Profound

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.33, Conari Press

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• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

  William Blake

  Faith, Forgiveness, Christian Inspirational

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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• The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

  Confucius

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Forgive Yourself

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• What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Forgiveness, Power Of Forgiveness, Forgiven

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.78, BookBaby

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• How many times should you forgive your household bruiser? You should not even think about forgiving him. Not yet. Not as long as he has his foot on your neck. Your problem at this point is not forgiving. Your problem is how to get out of his reach. Once you get away from him, you can think about forgiving him.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Thinking, Feet

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• Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, People, Risk

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• Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

  Henri Nouwen

  Forgiveness, Names, People

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• I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Memories

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• He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

  George Herbert

  Relationship, Forgiveness, Faith

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• We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

  "Loving Your Enemies" by Martin Luther King, Jr., Christmas, 1957.

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