FORGIVENESS QUOTES

Paul Boese

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

                                                               Les Brown

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

As forgiveness allows love to return to my awareness, I will see a world 
of peace and safety and joy.

Norman Cousins 

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole
world will be blind and toothless

George Herbert 

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.

Holmgren

Seeing with better eyes "We can recognize that the offender 
is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, 
pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize 
that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. 
Instead it was about the wrongdoer’s misguided attempt to meet his 
or her own needs. 
As we regard offenders from this point of view 
(regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what
they have done or suffered), 
we will be in a position to forgive them.

Jankelevitch

There is nothing that in the end, cannot be forgiven, 
but there remains much that is inexcusable. 

Martin Luther King 

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude.

Ann Landers

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.  

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One pardons to the degree that one loves.

C.S. Lewis

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we would find in each person's life sorrow and
suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Luke 11:3-4

...and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive each one who is in debt to us.

Luke 23:34

“Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”

Matthew 18:21-22

Then Peter went up to him and said, "Lord, how often must I forgive my 
brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times?   Jesus answered, 
"Not seven, I tell you, but seventy seven times."

Thomas Merton

We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. 
Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our 
forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives, 
for in forgiving one another we act towards one another 
as He has acted towards us.

Hannah More

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

Carolyn Osiek 

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future

Alan Paton 

God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?  

Helen Prejean, csj

In our society, forgiveness is often seen as weakness.  People who 
forgive those who have hurt them or their family are made to look as if 
they really don't care about their loved ones.  But forgiveness is tremendous strength.  It is the action of someone who refuses to be consumed by
hatred and revenge.

Rambler 

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full 
value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Saint Francis of Assisi 

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned

William H. Walton

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle:  the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. 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. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

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