Forgiveness Quotes - Page 28

• Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Funny, Witty, Race

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• One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Hate, Forgiving, Littles

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• Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  States, Should

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Forgiving, Thrones, World

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.385

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• One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Evil, Hatred

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• Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.

  Benjamin Barber

  Injury, Heal, Wells

  Benjamin Barber (2001). “Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy”, Ballantine Books

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• To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.

  Frederick Buechner

  Pride, Rights, Guarantees That

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 21, 2013

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• The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

  Rae Foley

  Revenge, Race, Vengeance

  Rae Foley (1961). “It's Murder, Mr. Potter”

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• My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

  Emily Dickinson

  Friendship, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

  Harold B. Lee

  Bears, Life Is, Sin

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• I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

  Frank Knox

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Peace, Healing

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• Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  Interview with Ken Page, www.psychologytoday.com. January 22, 2012.

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• There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  World, Hedgehogs, Ugly

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.314

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• Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Waiting, Rising, Sun

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.352, Library of America

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• Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

  Zig Ziglar

  Change, Ambition, Men

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• Good people are always so sure they're right.

  Barbara Graham

  People, Famous Last Words, Good People

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• Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

  Billy Graham

  Depth, Holiness, Sin

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

  Seneca the Elder

  Anger, Half, Poison

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• We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.

  Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

  Appreciation, Giving, Duty

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• Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

  Stephen Covey

  Forgiving, Excellence, Accepting

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• Courage and clemency are equal virtues.

  Delarivier Manley

  Courage, Kindness, Virtue

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• Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

  Frederick Buechner

  Peace, Ignorance, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Nov 15, 2016

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• Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

  Lorrie Moore

  Art, Confused, Bitterness

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Self-Help”, p.59, Vintage

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• There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

  Myrtle Reed

  House, Understanding, Path

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.70, tredition

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