Famous Quotes on Forgiveness

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What famous people said about Forgiveness

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. --Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Political and Spiritual leader of non-violence

The more I can love the world, The sooner I shall be able To forgive the world. Sri --Chinmoy, Indian philosopher, spiritual teacher (guru), musician, and author

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive -- Mother Teresa, Catholic Nun & Nobel Peace Winner

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.

As forgiveness can illumine A human life, Even so love can enlarge A human mind. --Sri Chinmoy Indian philosopher, spiritual teacher (guru), musician, and author.

Father, forgive them; For they know not what they do. --Jesus Christ Luke 23

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. --Isabelle Holland

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. --Jean Paul Richter

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The moment that one sincerely and freely forgives another, something wonderful and good happens to both the forgiver and the forgiven. The capacity for both to love one another is increased and strengthened.-- Arly Prior

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. -- Laurence Sterne

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you—out of love—takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. -- Dag Hammarskjöld, 20th century Swedish diplomat

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain --The Rambler, an 18th-century English periodical edited by Samuel Johnson (1752)

God forgives sins committed against Him, but offenses against man must first be forgiven by the injured person. --Joseph HaCohen, 1st-2nd century Talmudic sage (Tanna)

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, 19th-century American abolitionist and clergyman

If you forgive people enough, you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not—squatter's rights of the heart.--James Hilton, 20th-century English novelist

In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression …, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.--Hannah Arendt, 20th-century American political philosopher

Forgiveness is better than punishment; for the one is the proof of a gentle, the other of a savage nature.--Epictetus, 1st-2nd century Greek Stoic philosopher

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.--Koran, sacred book of the Moslems sura 42

I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.--Catherine Marshall

If you can’t forgive, don’t ask to be forgiven.--Anonymous

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?--Dolores Huerta

It is a verry delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimashun, and yures too.--Josh Billings, 19th-century American humorist

Lead us not into the temptation of believing that we have truly forgiven, while rancor lingers.--Katherine Zell, 16th-century German church worker and hymnist

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.--Peter Ustinov, 20th century British actor, writer, director

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sin.--Langdon Mitchell, 19th-20th century American playwright and poet

Mutual forgiveness of each vice…. Such are the Gates of Paradise.--William Blake, 18th–19th-century English poet

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.--Marlene Dietrich, 20th-century German-born American film actress

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of the finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.--David Augsburger, 20th-century Mennonite clergyman and author

Some people give and forgive; others get and forget.--Anonymous Saying

The highest and most difficult of all moral lessons, to forgive those we have injured.--Joseph Jacobs, 19th-20th-century English folklorist, critic, and historian

The sweetest revenge is to forgive.--Isaac Friedman, 19th-20th-century Lithuanian rabbi

Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.--Percy Bysshe Shelley, 19th-century English poet

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.--Samuel Butler, 19th-century English author

We pardon to the extent that we love.--François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 17th-century French writer and moralist

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.--Jane Austen, 18th–19th-century English novelist

A sin concealed needs two forgivings.--American proverb

A man cannot be "friends with" God on any other terms than complete obedience to Him, and that includes being "friends with" his fellow man. Christ stated emphatically that it was quite impossible, in the nature of things, for a man to be at peace with God and at variance with his neighbor. This disquieting fact is often hushed up, but it is undeniable that Christ said it, and the truth of it is enshrined in the petition for forgiveness in the "Lord’s Prayer."--John Bertram Phillips, 20th-century English Bible translator, writer, and broadcaster

Forgiveness is God's command. --Martin Luther

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action. --Orison Swett Marden

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships. --Josh Mcdowell

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. --Plato

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. --Robert Green Ingersoll

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. --Gerald G. Jampolsky

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. --St. Francis of Assisi

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. --Indira Gandhi

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. --Kahlil Gibran

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

Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf. --Confucius

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal --Diana, Princess of Wales
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