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Quotes About Forgiveness

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.
~ Horace
I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human
~ Hugh Prather
I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
~ Desmond Tutu
No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.
~ Frederick Lenz
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.
~ Gautama Buddha
It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.
~ Marcus Aurelius
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
~ Mark Twain
The cross of Christ is the response of God to men for belittling His name.
~ Matt Chandler
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
~ Oscar Wilde
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.
~ Angela Carter
I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.
~ Louis L'Amour
Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.
~ Michelangelo
What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
~ Mother Teresa
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
~ Randy Alcorn
Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.
~ Khem Veasna
Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
~ Simone Weil
Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.
~ Stephanie Zimbalist
The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.
~ Tim LaHaye
Successful avengers, who are good men at heart, will always be saddened.
~ Tracey Forbes
There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Jesus was a friend and not a judge. He loved the sinners as much as He loved the little ones. That man was love and not an act
~ Christofer Drew
In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
~ Francis Bacon
Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.
~ Kevin Allen