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Quotes About Forgiveness

There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.
~ Vincent de Paul
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
~ Khalil Gibran
Why are people so unkind?
~ Kamahl
It's important to remember that people are always doing the best they can, including you.
~ Louise Hay
God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.
~ Charles Stanley
Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.
~ Joel Osteen
Cease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins.
~ Aisha bint Abi Bakr
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
~ Dalai Lama
Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.
~ Dalai Lama
Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.
~ John Fletcher
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?
~ Learned Hand
My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.
~ Elizabeth Kenny
When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.
~ Reshad Feild
I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.
~ C.P. Snow, The Masters
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.
~ Joan Lunden
Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate
~ Nelson Mandela
People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.
~ Mrs. Patrick Campbell
I've never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.
~ Henry Lawson
Swallow what's bitter in the cup and move on.
~ Howard W. Hunter
Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
~ Jack Kerouac
This all-pervading divine power of love is the ocean of knowledge, is the ocean of bliss and compassion, but above all it is the ocean of forgiveness.
~ Nirmala Srivastava