FORGIVENESS QUOTES III

quotations about forgiveness

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

FRED ROGERS

The World According to Mister Rogers


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


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


There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

attributed, Mayor


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


Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.

JESUS

Luke 11:4


Forgiveness is healing ... especially forgiving yourself.

ALYSON NOËL

Evermore


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


Willingness to forgive frees the soul to laugh and cry and be The Beloved.

GITA BELLIN

The Flourishing Mind

Tags: Gita Bellin


Forgiveness is like money. We want to get it, not give it.

JENTEZEN FRANKLIN

Love Like You've Never Been Hurt


When our anger turns to bitterness it becomes like a weed in the garden of our heart. If we pull the weeds, our garden can stay healthy and alive. But if we allow bitter weeds to grow, eventually our garden becomes ugly and weeds choke the life out of the vegetables in our garden. Forgiveness is like pulling out the weeds.

MICHAEL E. MCCULLOUGH

To Forgive Is Human: How to Put Your Past in the Past


For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

The Fairyland Series


The offender never pardons.

GEORGE HERBERT

Jacula Prudentum


Forgiveness is like the gentle zephyrs wafting the dew of heaven over field, farm and woodland, rendering the landscape beautiful to behold.

C.L.W.

"Forgiveness", The Juvenile Instructor, Volume 25


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

HORACE

Satires


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


Remember, the purpose of forgiveness is to release yourself from the emotional attachment to the event. Forgiveness is like getting out of jail.

JIM BROWN

Spiritual Breadcrumbs from the Universe


He who forgives readily only invites offense.

PIERRE CORNEILLE

Cinna


Forgiveness is like catching a little fish. You reel it in, and you make a decision to keep it or let it go. With the little ones, you take the hook out of its mouth and throw it back in. The scar from the hook doesn't go away and the fish ought to remember not to repeat the mistake. But the fish is back in the creek and free to do whatever fish do. The purpose of forgiveness is freedom, like being thrown back into the creek.

DAVID RYDER

The Hound of Tooty River