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Quotes About Forgiveness

The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
~ Unknown
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
~ Phillips Brooks
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.
~ Edward Gibbon
Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.
~ Timothy Keller
I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness
~ Zbigniew Herbert
Forgiveness is divine, but never pay pull price for late pizza.
~ Unknown
Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.
~ John Lydon
We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.
~ Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option.
~ Joel Osteen
Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don't forget a thing. Move on.
~ Gabrielle Reece
What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.
~ Max Lucado
Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.
~ Hannah More
Let bygones be bygones.
~ Christina Rossetti
The brave only know how to forgive.
~ Laurence Sterne
We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.
~ Jack Kornfield
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
~ George Eliot
Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.
~ H. G. Bohn
Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.
~ Catherine Ponder
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
~ Jose Bergamin