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Quotes About Forgiveness

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.
~ Confucius
If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
~ Abraham Lincoln
You're looking at the face of a black man who hates nobody.
~ Unknown
Oh, miss Haversham said I, there have been sore mistakes and my life has been a blind and thankless one, and I want forgiveness and direction far too much to be bitter with you.
~ Charles Dickens
If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
~ Robert Frost
Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.
~ Dick Van Dyke
There is no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
~ Sydney Harris
There are things that can be fixed with an apology and things that can't.
~ Unknown
Whoever believe in Jesus Christ, shall receive remission of sins.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need itwe need it.
~ Bree Despain, The Dark Divine
The gift of salvation set me free from all my sins.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Forgiveness is not about forgetting, Mack. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
~ William Paul Young, The Shack
Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive?
~ Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace
Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration of health.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration health.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job
~ Laura Dave, The Divorce Party
If we choose to hold onto the past and cling to hurt, anger, or whatever, He can't set us free of it. He won't take those things by force.
~ Unknown
Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
~ Hannah More
Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.
~ Unknown
Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness.
~ Emily Thorne
How Forgiveness Helps Us Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again what is soiled is again made clean.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.
~ Jimmy Carter
I readily admit that I'm not, and have never been, big on forgiving. That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive.
~ Karen E. Quinones Miller
He arches his back because when you forgive, the body says, "Thank God.
~ Unknown