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Quotes About Compassion

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.
~ Friedrich Schiller
I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.
~ Rebecca West
You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.
~ Desmond Tutu
He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.
~ Marcus Eremita
Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.
~ Jeffrey Pierce
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Forgiveness is not substitute for justice.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Forgiveness is the path to healing.
~ Jeanne Marie Laskas
Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.
~ Desmond Tutu
There is no peace without forgiveness.
~ Marianne Williamson
It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.
~ Jane Hamilton
There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.
~ Charles Simmons
To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don't ask for your forgiveness. I don't deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I'm not the fool I was once. (Styxx)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
We forgive but not forgotten
~ Nelson Mandela
Forgiveness is choosing to see your offender with different eyes.
~ Max Lucado
The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left
~ Max Lucado
The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
~ Frederick Buechner
Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
~ Seneca the Younger
Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.
~ Don King
we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.
~ P. D. James
the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.
~ P. D. James
Sleeping with forgiveness in your heart for me.
~ Elvis Costello
The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.
~ Joyce Meyer