Forgiveness Quotes - Page 24

• There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

  Charles Simmons

  Doe, Noble, Remember

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• The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

  Immaculee Ilibagiza

  World, Bigs, Huge

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• Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Forgiving, Saws

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.712, Delphi Classics

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• Forgive that you may be forgiven.

  Seneca the Younger

  Forgiving, May, Forgiven

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• God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Wish, Who We Are, Worst

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• That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorrow, Needs, Steel

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are rooted in a strong and anchored in a powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies, which diverts us here and there.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Strong, Powerful, Passion

  "Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection".

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• If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Jesus, Forgiving, Crosses

  Anne Graham Lotz (2009). “Just Give Me Jesus”, p.224, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Victory

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• Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.

  Somaly Mam

  Love Is, Compassion, Together We Can

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• There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Worst Enemy, Evil, Hatred

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness.

  Darren Johnson

  And Love

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• Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

  Penn Jillette

  Motivational, God, Atheist

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• I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

  William P. Leahy

  Errors, Hierarchy, Judgment

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• Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Action, Happened

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• Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.

  David Jeremiah

  Jesus, Faults, Forfeit

  Dr. David Jeremiah (2013). “Prayer, the Great Adventure”, p.148, Multnomah

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• Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Friendship, Teamwork

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• He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

  Seneca the Younger

  Feelings, Innocent, Repentance

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• I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Long, People

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• Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Naked, Defense

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• "He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix. 2). God allowed him to fall, because He meant to make him ruler over the whole world, that, remembering his own fall, he might forgive those who should slip in the future. And that what I have said is no guess, listen to Christ Himself saying: 'Simon, Simon, etc.'"

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Fall, Forgiving, World

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• To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

  Robert Breault

  Forgiving, Forget, Persons

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• Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

  Robert Breault

  Forgive And Forget, Forgiving, Remember

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• But with morning cool repentance came.

  Walter Scott

  Morning, Repentance

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• When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

  Richard Holloway

  Human Experience, Humans, Happens

  Richard Holloway (2002). “On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable?”, p.12, Canongate Books

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