Forgiveness Quotes

1. A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed. Alexander Chase


2. Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde


3. For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. Adlai E. Stevenson


4. Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. Ausonius


5. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. John F. Kennedy


6. Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting. Peter Allen


7. Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. William Arthur Ward


8. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. Suzanne Somers


9. Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. Indira Gandhi


10. 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


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


12. Forgiveness is the final form of love. Reinhold Niebuhr


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


14. Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. George MacDonald


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


16. 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


17. Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Gerald Jampolsky


18. God will forgive me. It's his job. Heinrich Heine


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


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


21. I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. Henry Ward Beecher


22. I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget. Chaim Herzog


23. If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. Friedrich Nietzsche


24. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake


25. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. John Dryden


26. It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. Grace Hopper


27. It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. Lewis B. Smedes


28. It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. Olin Miller


29. It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them. Lana Turner


30. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins


31. More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. Alexander Chase


32. Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


33. Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. Marlene Dietrich


34. One forgives to the degree that one loves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld


35. Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Garrison Keillor


36. The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. William Blake


37. The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. Elbert Hubbard


38. The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. Alexander Chase


39. The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde


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