FORGIVENESS QUOTES
quotations about forgiveness
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
WM. PAUL YOUNG
The Shack
As I free myself through Forgiveness, Myself dances around Myself. I stand in the Light.
GITA BELLIN
The Flourishing Mind
I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
KHALED HOSSEINI
The Kite Runner
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
GRACE HOPPER
interview, "Only the Limits of Our Imagination", Chips Ahoy, July 1986
It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Jerusalem
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
"An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification", Tales and Novels
Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
JESUS
Luke 23:34
For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
MATTHEW 6:14
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
ANNE LAMOTT
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself.
MAYA ANGELOU
Facebook post, Nov. 22, 2013
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
HANNAH ARENDT
attributed, Aspects of Love: An Exploration of 1 Corinthians 13
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man had need to be forgiven.
LORD HERBERT
The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury
But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Handmaid's Tale
Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.
RICK WARREN
Ladies Home Journal, Dec. 2008
Good, to forgive;
Best to forget.
ROBERT BROWNING
prologue, La Saisiaz
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE
An Essay on Criticism
I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
But my will gets weak
And my thoughts seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore.
DON HENLEY
"The Heart of the Matter"
I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
To receive an injury is to be wounded; but to forgive and forget it is the cure.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs