Forgiveness Quotes - Page 30

• we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

  P. D. James

  Long, Forgiving, Done

  P.D. James (2012). “Innocent Blood”, p.388, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a moment when all would go smooth and even,
  If only the dead could find out when
  To come back, and be forgiven.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Moments, Smooth, Ifs

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• Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

  Democritus

  Wish, Virtue

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• Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself

  T. D. Jakes

  Giving, Forgiven, Inspirational Forgiveness

  T.D. Jakes (2012). “Before You Do: Making Great Decisions That You Won't Regret”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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

  Audre Lorde

  Hatred, Wish, Hated

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• As long as we love, we can forgive.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Long, Forgiving

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• Forgive what you can't excuse.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Forgiving, Excuse

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.347

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• No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

  Seneca the Elder

  Loss, Evil, Trouble

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• Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Forgiving, Needs, Firsts

  "Zanoni". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1842.

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• To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

  Amelia Barr

  Forgiving, Enemy, Forget

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1900). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon."”

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• More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Kindness, Ice

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• No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

  Lucan

  Men, Judging, Opponents

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• You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

  Tertullian

  Letting Go, Done, Faces

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• Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it.

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

  Doe, Deeds, Rise Above

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.112, Portobello Books

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• Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

  Robert Kennedy

  Clever, Names, Forgive And Forget

  Quoted in Nancy McPhee, The Second Book of Insults (1981)

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• During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us, and then strive to train our heart to bear and forgive these things patiently, in imitation of our Saviour. This is the way to acquire a strong spirit.

  Philip Neri

  Strong, Prayer, Heart

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• You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

  E. W. Howe

  Im Sorry, Apology, I Am Sorry

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• The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive.

  Demi Moore

  Sorry, Apology, Two

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• I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

  John G. Rowland

  Sorry, Responsibility, Apology

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• Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

  Saadi

  Prayer, Forgiving, Sin

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• We pardon as long as we love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Long, Pardon

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• To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

  Thomas Secker

  Christian, Evil, Perfection

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 251), 1895.

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• But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your Lord shall open a door to you in your trouble: wait upon Him, as the night watch waiteth for the morning. He will not tarry. Go up to your watch-tower, and come not down, but by prayer, and faith, and hope, wait on.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Morning, Prayer, Night

  Samuel Rutherford, Hamilton Smith (2008). “Extracts from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford”, p.45, Scripture Truth

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• No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Heart, Forgiving

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• Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

  Dwight Morrow

  Party, Rain, Humility

  Speech, 10 Oct. 1930

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