Quotes About Forgiveness

To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

Forgiveness is the only way to heal

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara)

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.

I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

But no matter what the outcome, how the friends turn out in the end, it should not stop you from making new friends. Once bitten, twice shy should not be applied to friendship.

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

Sudden friendship sure repentance.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than it is a friend.

Friends are folks who excuse you when you have made a fool of yourself.