FORGIVENESS QUOTES II

quotations about forgiveness


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Forgiveness is healing ... especially forgiving yourself.

ALYSON NOËL
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Evermore


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Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

JESUS

Luke 23:34


Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

SCOTT ADAMS

attributed, Dictionary of Quotations


Forgotten is forgiven.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

The Crack-Up


Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

attributed, Mayor


There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living


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


Never forgive an injury or an insult so long as the offending parties have it in their power to make reparation; since, if they are able to do so, and will not, whatever they may pretend to others, they, up to that time, are only laughing at you, and triumphing in secret. If, however, they have not the power to neutralize an impertinence by explanation, or a fraud by restitution, forgive and forget either--as soon as you can.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims


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


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"


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


The offender never pardons.

GEORGE HERBERT

Jacula Prudentum


Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?" Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times (or seventy times seven)."

JESUS

Matthew 18:21


Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers


It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

HORACE

Satires


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


He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

1957


He who forgives readily only invites offense.

PIERRE CORNEILLE

Cinna


Good, to forgive;
Best to forget.

ROBERT BROWNING

prologue, La Saisiaz


Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.

RICK WARREN

The Purpose Driven Life