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Quotes About Forgiveness

Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others
~ Gautama Buddha
An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up
~ Tupac Shakur
Believe the best of everybody.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
~ Pope John Paul II
It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.
~ Andrew Solomon
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Time Untime
You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.
~ Max Lucado
There's no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer
It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
~ Sophocles
One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.
~ T. D. Jakes
It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.
~ Leo Buscaglia
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
~ C. S. Lewis
The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.
~ Pema Chodron
If you see a man who has sinned and you do not pity him, the grace of God will leave you. Whoever curses bad people, and does not pray for them, will never come to know the grace of God.
~ Silouan the Athonite
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
~ Euripides
More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.
~ Jose Ramos-Horta
Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.
~ T. D. Jakes
The noblest revenge is to forgive
~ Thomas Fuller
If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.
~ Saint Basil
Let them push you, but do not push; Let them crucify you, but do not crucify. Let them insult, but do not insult. Let them slander, but do not slander. Be meek, and do not be zealous in evil.
~ Isaac of Nineveh
Smoking means always having to say you're sorry.
~ Thomas Ferguson