45 quotes
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
— Alexander Pope
“Forgiveness is no longer wishing that your past were different and choosing to heal your present”
— Caroline Myss
“Whatever affliction may visit you is for what your own hands have earned; and for many He grants forgiveness.”
— Unknown
“Without forgiveness there is no future.”
— Desmond Tutu
“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Compassion is the key to the gate of forgiveness and forgiveness opens the door to love”
— Marianne Williamson
“There is no future without forgiveness and no healing without it either”
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness.”
— Beyonce Knowles
“Any fool can criticize complain and condemn and most fools do but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving”
— Dale Carnegie
“One must learn to forgive God for being God and compassion teaches us how to begin”
— Etty Hillesum
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember.”
— Lewis Smedes
“To err is human to forgive divine”
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
— Hannah Arendt
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. It is also the key to peace.”
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past and embracing the healing present”
— Jack Kornfield
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
— Nelson Mandela
“He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”
“The heart of a mother in a family is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
— Confucius
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world”
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past”
“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”
— Bryant H. McGill
“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different and freeing yourself to heal now”
— Oprah Winfrey
“One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.”
— Ann Landers
“He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.”
— Thomas Secker
“Do not be ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”
“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
— Joseph Joubert
“Forget injuries never forget kindnesses”
“Without forgiveness there is no future and without healing there is no forgiveness so healing comes first”
“A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.”
— Publilius Syrus
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong and the path to peace.”
“Forgiveness and compassion are not just ethereal spiritual things they are the essence of what makes us human”
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
— Peter Ustinov
“In the end forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of your heart and that heals everything”
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.”
— David Storey
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