Forgiveness Quotes About Character & Perspective | GloryQuotes

Short Forgiveness Quotes

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Billy Graham

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mohandas Gandhi

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

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

Bryant H. McGill

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Inspirational Forgiveness Quotes

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honore de Balzac

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

Deep Forgiveness Quotes

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Saint Augustine

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

Dag Hammarskjold

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Lord Chesterfield

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

Tom Robbins

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Jessamyn West

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.

Charles Williams

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

More Forgiveness Quotes

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Phillips Brooks

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

Horatio Nelson

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Marianne Williamson

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Sydney J. Harris

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

William Arthur Ward

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Marquis de Sade

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

Kevyn Aucoin

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

Emma Goldman

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

William P. Leahy

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Jose Bergamin

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Karl Barth

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Emma Goldman

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Marianne Williamson

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Maria Edgeworth

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

George MacDonald

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Quentin Crisp

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Les Brown

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Publilius Syrus

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Pierre Corneille

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

Don Young

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Marianne Williamson

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Charles Williams

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

Stephen Leacock

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

Nelson Mandela

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

Hillary Clinton

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Maximilien Robespierre

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Hannah More

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Scott Adams

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

Stephen Leacock

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Marianne Williamson

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Dalai Lama

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Gerald Jampolsky

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

John Tillotson

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

Alan Paton

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Frederick William Robertson

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

Forgiveness is God's command.

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