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Quotes About Forgiveness

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.
~ Peace Pilgrim
It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past.
~ Douglas Tompkins
As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love
~ Ruth St. Denis
Truth, honesty, perseverance, strength, love of all kinds and forgiveness are all beautiful, Tack. The most beautiful stories ever told are the most difficult to take.
~ Kristen Ashley
The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.
~ Mary Oliver
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
~ R. D. Laing
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
~ Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth
When the truth emerges, then we reconcile ourselves to truth and unity and in charity or in love.
~ Alveda King
The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Love your enemies-they may tell you the truth.
~ Jane Heap
Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
~ Gautama Buddha
There can be no mercy without truth.
~ Adrian Rogers
If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.
~ Ann B. Ross
Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Love truth, and pardon error.
~ Voltaire
Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.
~ Sean Penn
There can be no healing without truth.
~ Desmond Tutu
The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.
~ Gautama Buddha