What Is Forgiveness Quotes

• Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

  Suzanne Somers

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Letting Go

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2013

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• I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Two

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1860). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.108

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  The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

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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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• Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Forget

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

  Laurence Sterne

  Forgiveness, Brave, Forgiving

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

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• A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

  Robert Fripp

  Forgiveness, Mistake

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• Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

  Desmond Tutu

  Forgiveness, Way, Pretending

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• All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Karma, Religious

  "Especially for Christians: Powerful Thought-provoking Words from the Past" by Mark Alton Rose, (p. 19), 2005.

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• Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

  Emma Goldman

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Understanding

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• Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

  Billy Graham

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Men

  Billy Graham (2011). “The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

  Dar Williams

  Forgiveness, Night, Needs

  Song: My Friends

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• Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

  Mason Cooley

  Forgiveness, Forgive And Move On

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• In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said seventy times seven. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

  Hillary Clinton

  Forgiveness, Jesus, Political

  "Hillary the Pol" by Connie Bruck, www.newyorker.com. May 30, 1994.

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  When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Death, Forgiveness

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• When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Evil

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• Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

  Saint Augustine

  Forgiveness, Sin, Remission

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• Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

  Phillips Brooks

  Forgiveness, Faults, Bears

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• It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

  Patty Duke

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Grieving

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• Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

  Desmond Tutu

  Air, Order, Shining

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• Forgive those who have hurt you.

  Les Brown

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Forgiving

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• Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

  Hannah More

  Forgiveness, Heartbroken, Anger

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.639

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• Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

  Alice Miller

  Forgiveness, Anger, Doe

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.248, Macmillan

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

  Marianne Williamson

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Firsts

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

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