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Quotes About Forgiveness

It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.
~ Frederick Lenz
Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.
~ Neil L. Andersen
it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.
~ Mary McCarthy
I have forgiven you. Nevertheless, begone!
~ Mason Cooley
Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
~ Marcel Proust
Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!
~ Karl Kraus
Forgiveness frees the forgiver.
~ Lance Morrow
My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.
~ Nelson Mandela
Forgiveness essentially means giving up your right to make other people pay for the wrongs they have committed against you.
~ Unknown
The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.
~ Frederick William Robertson
Forgiveness releases you from a past that no longer defines you. Allow yourself to move on.
~ Cheryl Richardson
May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.
~ Charles Dickens
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
~ Wayne Dyer
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
~ Elbert Hubbard
But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?
~ Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn't my trip.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
~ Zoë Akins
Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul's immortality is the only true immortality—
~ Alyson Noel, Everlasting
Hate would destroy him who hated.
~ Louis L'Amour