Quotes About Forgiveness

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

Forgiveness is really just another word for freedom.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.

Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.

Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.