45 quotes
“Without forgiveness there is no future.”
— Desmond Tutu
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“To err is human to forgive divine”
— Alexander Pope
“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.”
— David Storey
“One must learn to forgive God for being God and compassion teaches us how to begin”
— Etty Hillesum
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness.”
— Beyonce Knowles
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
— Nelson Mandela
“There is no future without forgiveness and no healing without it either”
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
— Joseph Joubert
“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”
— Oscar Wilde
“He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.”
— Thomas Secker
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong and the path to peace.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
— Hannah Arendt
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. It is also the key to peace.”
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
— Peter Ustinov
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world”
— Marianne Williamson
“Forgiveness and compassion are not just ethereal spiritual things they are the essence of what makes us human”
“Without forgiveness there is no future and without healing there is no forgiveness so healing comes first”
“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”
— Bryant H. McGill
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past”
— Jack Kornfield
“Whatever affliction may visit you is for what your own hands have earned; and for many He grants forgiveness.”
— Unknown
“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different and freeing yourself to heal now”
— Oprah Winfrey
“The heart of a mother in a family is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“In the end forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of your heart and that heals everything”
“Any fool can criticize complain and condemn and most fools do but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving”
— Dale Carnegie
“Forgiveness is no longer wishing that your past were different and choosing to heal your present”
— Caroline Myss
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
— Confucius
“Forget injuries never forget kindnesses”
“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
“One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.”
— Ann Landers
“Do not be ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”
“Compassion is the key to the gate of forgiveness and forgiveness opens the door to love”
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”
“He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom”
“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember.”
— Lewis Smedes
“A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.”
— Publilius Syrus
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past and embracing the healing present”
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