Quotes About Forgiveness

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.

Turn towards love, and become love.

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.

As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin.

You—stink," I ended lamely, so sore I couldn't even try to be clever. "Okay, I stink," he said, walking off, "but someday you'll cut off an arm for one little whiff.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace

You will not be punished for your anger. You will be punished by your anger

Hatred does not cease by hatred, hatred ceases by love; this is the eternal rule.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

What is the point of your getting angry with another? By doing this you are like one who wants to hit another and picks up a burning ember or excrement in his hand and so first burns himself or makes himself stink.

Hast thou given the first kiss to a maiden? Write her speedily on the morrow before she giveth thee fierce words; assure her and comfort her woe; let her remorse be abated, give unto her an excuse for her conduct.

if he had attended burial services for one of his bitter enemies, said, "No, I didn't patronize the funeral, but I approve of it.

We know not what we do when we hate.

If God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, why shouldn't we forgive? If we are faithful and just, we shall.

There's a special place kept for the person who first breaks your heart.

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on

Hektor, argue me no agreements. I cannot forgive you. As there are no trustworthy oaths between men and lions, nor wolves and lambs have spirit that can be brought to agreement but forever these hold feelings of hate for each other, so there can be no love between you and me, nor shall there be oaths between us, but one or the other must fall before then to glut with his blood Ares the god who fights under the shield's guard.