Forgiveness Quotes.

Collection of famous forgiveness quotes.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. - Bryant H. McGill

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

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. - Catherine Ponder

If we are to love others as we love ourselves, then we must learn to love the little self which so often needs to be forgiven for doing the things we do not want to do and saying the things we do not want to say. - Rebecca Beard

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindness, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. - Ellen Goodman

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

We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves. - Denis Waitley

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. - Dale Carnegie

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. - William A. Ward

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. - Lawana Blackwell

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. - Thomas S. Szasz

Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don't want the other person to forget that we forgave. - Ivern Ball

"Forgive and forget," we say, not for the alliteration alone, but because there is a real conviction. - Odell Shepard

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. - Paul Boese

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on. - Bill Cosby

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. - Maxim Gorky

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. - Benjamin Disraeli

No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe, as from our own. Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness. - Reinhold Niebuhr

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