Forgiveness Quotes - Page 38

• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Hate, Light

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

  George Sand

  Self, Sublime, Forgiving

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• Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

  Albert Ellis

  Self, Self Forgiveness

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• To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Night, Thinking, Joy

  "The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley".

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• If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

  J. Golden Kimball

  Discouraged, Repentance, Labor

  J. Golden Kimball (2008). “J. Golden Kimball: His Sermons”, p.122, Latter-day Publishing

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• On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fruit, Bears, Mercy

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• A coward never forgives.

  Laurence Sterne

  Forgiving, Coward, Never Forgive

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• Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Lasts, Impossible, Indifference

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• Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hate, Forgiving, Sound

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1240, Delphi Classics

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• True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Im Sorry, Regret, Apology

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.59, BookBaby

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• When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is our own pleasure of seeing someone who hurt us getting it back and then some. Justice, on the other hand, is secure when someone pays a fair penalty for wronging another even if the injured person takes no pleasure in the transaction. Vengeance is personal satisfaction. Justice is moral accounting...Human forgiveness does not do away with human justice.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Hurt, Giving Up, Hands

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• Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Misunderstood, Individual, Release

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• Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Thinking, Forgiving, Helping

  Frank Bettger, Norman Vincent Peale (2012). “Inspiring Messages For Daily Living”, p.208, Random House

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• I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

  Simone Weil

  Imagine, Knows

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.9, Psychology Press

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• Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

  Desmond Tutu

  Existence, Humans, Absolutes

  "Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Healing the Shattered Soul". Book by Dalene Fuller Rogers and Harold G Koenig, 2002.

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• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiving, Enemy, Conquer

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• Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

  John Lydon

  Razors, Turn The Other Cheek, Turns

  "NME's Rock 'n' Roll Years". Book by John Tobler, 1992.

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• There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

  Cesare Pavese

  Stupidity, Forgiving, Indifference

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.214, Transaction Publishers

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• If you take care of yourself and walk with integrity, you may be confident that God will deal with those who sin against you. Above all, don't give birth to sin yourself, rather, pray for those who persecute you. God will one day turn your persecution into praise.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  God, Christian, Religious

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2011). “Prayer, Praise & Promises: A Daily Walk Through the Psalms”, p.22, Baker Books

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• God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Wise, Forgiving, Atonement

  Richard Salter Storrs (1875). “Conditions of Success in Preaching Without Notes: Three Lectures Delivered Before the Students of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, Januray 13, 20, 27: 1875; with an Appendix”, p.114

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• When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

  Reba McEntire

  Forgiving, Pounds, Millions

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• I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

  Ray Bradbury

  Love You, Creating, People

  "Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury on God, 'monsters and angels'" by John Blake, CNN: Living, August 02, 2010.

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• Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Valentines Day, Deep Affection

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Maturity, Generosity, Doubt

  "Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani". Book by Brian Morris, p. 21, 2013.

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  When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Death, God

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