What Is Forgiveness Quotes

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

  Phillips Brooks

  Forgiveness, Faults, Bears

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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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• 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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• 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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• He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

  George Herbert

  Forgiveness, Bridges, Heaven

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• Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

  Joan Lunden

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Laughter

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• Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

  Robert Kennedy

  Forgiveness, Clever, Names

  Quoted in Nancy McPhee, The Second Book of Insults (1981)

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

  Joan Lunden

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Laughter

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• When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

  Princess Diana

  Happiness, Forgiveness, Girly

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

  Antonio Porchia

  Forgiveness, Evil, Forgiving

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

  Bernard Baruch

  Life, Positive, Forgiveness

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• I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

  Michael Jackson

  Forgiveness, Biblical, Christ On The Cross

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• “I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "Gems of Truth & Beauty".

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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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• 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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• Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

  Suzanne Somers

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Letting Go

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2013

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• The weak can never forgive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Being Strong, Forgiveness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black

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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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• There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

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• Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Motivational, Forgiveness, Anger

  Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Love Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.94, Random House

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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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  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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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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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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