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The only way to peace is forgiveness.
- Pope John Paul II
To be social is to be forgiving.
- Robert Frost
A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
- Unknown
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
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
- Catherine Ponder
Apologizing does not always mean that you are wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.
- Unknown
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
- Ann Landers
I have learned that sometimes "sorry" is not enough. Sometimes you actually have to change.
- Claire London
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
- Bernard Meltzer
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
- Cherie Carter-Scott
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
- Thomas Szasz
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect,
he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes
an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
- Alden Nowlan
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
- Lawana Blackwell
No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.
- Real Live Preacher (from 2006 blog)
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- William Blake
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
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
- Lewis B Smedes
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
- Alexander Pope
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are
incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
- Earl of Chesterfield
'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
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
- Harriet Nelson
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
- Cherie Carter-Scott
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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
--George MacDonald
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
- Robert Muller
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
-William H. Walton
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
-Mark Twain
The weak can never forgive. forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed realtionship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.
- Real Live Preacher (blog July 2003)
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
-Dolores Huerta
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
- Real Live Preacher (blog July 2003)
We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.
-Louise Hay
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
-Gerald Jampolsky
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-Paul Boese
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
-George MacDonald
The offender never pardons.
-George Herbert
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies.
-Voltaire
A mature Christian has capacity to absorb the offenses and weaknesses of others, not just demand they perform up to the code of ideals.
-Stephen Crosby
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
-George Herbert
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
-Nelson Mandela
Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively.
-David McArthur & Bruce McArthur
A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit.
-Hannah More
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Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile.
-Doc Childre and Howard Martin
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me.
-Sara Paddison
Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, otherworldly activities. . . . They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.
-Desmond Tutu
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
-Sholem Asch
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
-William A. Ward
Forgiveness is giving up the possibility of a better past.
-Unknown
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
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
-Mignon McLaughlin
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
-Sterne
Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile.
-Doc Childre and Howard Martin
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
-Zig Ziglar
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.
-Malcolm Forbes
We frequently forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those whom we bore.
–Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Without deep humility, true forgiveness is impossible…and will never happen.
-Martha Kilpatrick
A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit.
-Hannah More
Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.
-Anonymous
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
-E. H. Chapin
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
-Abraham Lincoln
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
-Jean Paul Richter
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
-William Blake
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
-Antonio Porchia
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. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Forgive and be free.
Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.
-Buddha
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck . . . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
-Ellen Goodman
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
-Robert Quillen
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me.
-Sara Paddison
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
-John Sheffield
What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery.
Here's the antidote:
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Amen.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
-H. Jackson Brown
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
-Confucius
When I was a child, I thought unforgiveness was a virtue; when I grew up I learnt that it isn't, but forgiveness is. Maturity and experiences taught me three things about this ungodliness (unforgiveness) viz it leads to 1. self imprisonment 2. unaccomplishement, failure and unanswered prayers 3. wrinkles, the agent of old age! Then I discovered that forgiveness is the opposite of these, So I vowed never to harbor grudges against any one.
-Gabriel Okpe
We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven.
-Martha Kilpatrick
"Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare."
-Lance Morrow
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. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
-Louis B. Smedes
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies.
-Voltaire
Forgiveness demands not Justice and Justice demands not Forgiveness.
-Unknown
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
-Louis B. Smedes
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.
-Louis B. Smedes
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
-Henry Ward Beecher
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
-Kurt Lewin
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
-Katherine Mansfield
Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don't want the other person to forget that we forgave.
-Ivern Ball
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