Forgiveness Quotes - Page 20

• One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

  Marya Mannes

  Poor

  Marya Mannes (1971). “Out of my time”

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• Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.

  Francis Quarles

  Forgiving, Injury, Thee

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.49

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• Forgive yourself first. Let go of past hurts and direct your spirit to goodness and hope by having gratitude.

  Janet Taylor Spence

  Letting Go, Gratitude, Hurt

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• Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.

  Suzanne Somers

  Pain, Feel Better, Forgiving

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• God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

  Heinrich Heine

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Opponents

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• May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

  Charles Dickens

  Forgiving, Done, May

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Ghost Stories”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

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• The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Forgiving, Enemy, Sun

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.31

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• No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

  John Bunyan

  Children, Degrees, Sin

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.858, Delphi Classics

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• A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

  Joan Lunden

  Anger, Heart, Forgiving

  Joan Lunden (2001). “Wake-up calls”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

  Billy Graham

  Forgiving, Doe, Betray

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.

  Barbara Wood

  Summer, Dog, Children

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• As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Friendship, World, Sun

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• Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

  Carrie Fisher

  Revenge, May, Consciousness

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• It is said that the offender never forgives. Certainly it is quite explicitly hard for the one in the wrong to do so. And it takes more spiritual asset than continued alcohol often leaves.

  Louise Jordan Miln

  Spiritual, Drinking, Alcohol

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• When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, Honesty, Integrity

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.

  Dan Harmon

  Running, Hurt, Mistake

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• The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Forgiving, Degrees, Littles

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• 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.

  Isaac Watts

  Wise, Mean, Wrath

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic”, p.331

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• To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

  Walter Lippmann

  Love, Understanding, Ends

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.328, Transaction Publishers

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• If we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole being to feel good. To hold a grudge against anyone is like carrying the devil on your shoulders. It is our willingness to forgive and forget that casts away such a burden and brings light into our hearts, freeing us from many ill feelings against our fellow human beings.

  Sydney Banks

  Heart, Light, Feel Good

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• Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

  Madame de Stael

  Understanding, Forgiving

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• Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.

  Dave Hunt

  Appreciation, Our Love, His Love

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• I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

  Rebecca West

  Believe, Forget, Pardon

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• Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

  Willa Cather

  Fall, Dark, Men

  Willa Cather (1938). “The novels and stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• Men are less forgiving than women.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Forgiving

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