Forgiveness Quotes - Page 8

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

Mohandas Gandhi

Only the brave know how to forgive. ... A coward never forgave it is not in his nature.

Laurence Sterne

Any man can seek revenge it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.

Arthur J. Rehrat

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish to rage and be furious is brutish and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious is manly and divine.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated not a life wish for anything else.

Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause not an individual. Keep it for intolerance injustice stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use.

Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease for we have been not only mentally and physically ill we have been spiritually sick.

Alcoholics Anonymous

To oppose something is to maintain it.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Shirley Maclaine

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.

Charlotte Brontë

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Gerald Jampolsky

I know now that patriotism is not enough I must have no hatred and bitterness toward anyone.

Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.

Once a woman has forgiven a man she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Marlene Dietrich

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Sydney J. Harris

As long as you don't forgive who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

Isabelle Holland

Courage and clemency are equal virtues.

Mary Delariviere Manley

One may have been a fool but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

Kathleen Norris

Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always make you less than you are.

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.

Catherine Porter

Forgiveness is an act of the will and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Corrie ten Boom

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

How we remember what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Christina Baldwin

Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro

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

Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.

Zoe Akins

Blaming others doesn't certify your goodness.

When we forgive, we're telling our heart that we are ready to move on.

Milan Ljubincic

When we forgive, we're saying to our heart that we are ready to move on.

Milan Ljubincic

The reason people will attack you never really has anything to do with you. It stems from their OWN evil thoughts that they entertain and from wanting and not getting their way.

Sandra M. Michelle

...if a person remains in a state of unforgiveness the Spirit of the Lord will allow tormentors to enter him. That's what Christ told Peter when the disciple asked, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" (Matt. 18:21).

Self-Forgiveness is the most important wand in all of Diagon Alley™.

I have so much health problems, but I believe I could still make it through.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

You can't restore anything you've previously done, but you can face up to it. You can enlighten the reality. You can entreat forgiveness. And then let God decide and do the rest.

God extend His power of great mercy and forgiveness to all men.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't wound someone's eye trying to remove the twig from it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

My mother is a certainty. I can count on the watercolour pain in her voice when she calls to say she hasn't heard from me in months. The precarious laughter as she comes from the kitchen, when I finally do appear on her doorstep, the laughter that says I might be a chickadee that's alighted unexpectedly on her thumb.

My mother may no longer be (if she ever was) a mast to which I can rope myself. But I fear the loss of Lesley. Without her observance, and her sturdy presence, I would feel windblown.

Seventy times seven" is a medicine for a healing community, not for a community with all the answers beforehand and all the appropriate punishments afterwards.

There in its nasty, stinking, underground home our insulted, crushed and ridiculed mouse promptly becomes absorbed in cold, malignant and, above all, everlasting spite. For forty years together it will remember its injury down to the smallest, most ignominious details, and every time will add, of itself, details still more ignominious, spitefully teasing and tormenting itself with its own imagination. It will itself be ashamed of its imaginings, but yet it will recall it all, it will go over and over every detail, it will invent unheard of things against itself, pretending that those things might happen, and will forgive nothing. Maybe it will begin to revenge itself, too, but, as it were, piecemeal, in trivial ways, from behind the stove, incognito, without believing either in its own right to vengeance, or in the success of its revenge, knowing that from all its efforts at revenge it will suffer a hundred times more than he on whom it revenges itself, while he, I daresay, will not even scratch himself. On its deathbed it will recall it all over again, with interest accumulated over all the years…

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The person who offends, and the person who has been offended and awaiting for a revenge have one thing in common: the real uncertainties of tomorrow is truly uncertain to both of them.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Ask your wife for forgiveness, even when you’re right.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't forgive people, but I don't let them bother me either!

I am redeemed and saved by grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Turning something over to the Holy Spirit is a leap of faith that lets go of attempting to control outcomes. The core of alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, smoking and a host of things the world calls addictions is control. The little willingness the Holy Spirit asks is the key to letting go of the attempt to manage the body and the world, which is the insane attempt to maintain a self-concept image that God did not create. An idea to contemplate from the Course is this: "Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world." The requirement is to change your thinking, not to focus on behavior and form. Behavior flows from thought, and transformation of the mind is synonymous with changing thought patterns from ego-based to Spirit-based.

David Hoffmeister

To hold the power of affection and maintain the roots of love, you must stay trusted.

Auliq-Ice

If you can find a cause that touches your soul it will make you a better person, it will show you the power of helping others and ultimately the biggest winner is us. Giving to others helps us to grow, to have a different outlook in life, to appreciate what we have and to be more positive.

Auliq-Ice

The path of imperfection is the loving way to learn tolerance and happiness.

Ivan Figueroa-Otero

Love mercy, love kindness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God is merciful.God is faithful.

Lailah Gifty Akita

No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creation of God. May we affectionately love one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Hate may have its hour, but love will have its day.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't let hard lessons harden your heart.

Carlos A. Rodriguez

Raise your thoughts, not your fists.

Matshona Dhliwayo

With thousands of years of history frozen in time, it's no wonder that many southerners like me romanticize the north as a place where we can freeze our former selves, thaw, and then bloom anew. Here it’s just you, the land, and your thoughts, and you can't leave until you've wrestled with yourself and emerged a survivor. But then again, the light is much more intense up here and everything looks different because of it. The sun hasn’t set in a couple of months, and you can see things much more clearly when it is light all of the time.

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