Forgiveness Quotes - Page 12

• The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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  It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

  Grace Hopper

  Peace, Apology, Asking Permission

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• A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Sacrifice, Forgiving, Done

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• Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

  Kin Hubbard

  Forget, Buried, Hatchet

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• When anger rises, think of the consequences.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Yoga, Anger

  "The Sacred Edict: Containing Sixteen Maxims of the Emperor Kang-He". Book by Yu-p'u Wang (p. 298), 1817.

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• One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Forgiving, Doe, Obvious

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• I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Forgiving, Sin

  Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.96, Wordsworth Editions

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• If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Peace, Anger, World Suffering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

  John F. Kennedy

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A man must learn to forgive himself.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Inspirational, Men, Forgiving

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• When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

  Rob Bell

  Love, Inspirational, Generosity

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• Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

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• Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.

  Joyce Brothers

  Forgiving, Together, Weakness

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• If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Hurt, Memories, Heart

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• The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Love, Hate, Hatred

  Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.49, Macmillan

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• God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Past, Forgiving, Way

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• We pardon to the extent that we love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Pardon Me, Wedding Ceremony

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 330, 1678.

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• Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on
  the heel that crushes it.

  John Arnott

  Crush, Rose, Scent

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• We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiving

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• The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.

  Princess Diana

  Mistake, Long, Forgiving

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• He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Sublime, Forgiving

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• Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Anger, Annoying, Annoyance

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• Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

  Joan Lunden

  Hurt, Laughter, Anger

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• For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter
  Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Earth, Letters

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.576

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