Forgiveness Quotes - Page 5

• Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.179, Tuttle Publishing

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• Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Motivational, Anger, Forgive And Forget

  Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Love Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.94, Random House

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• Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

  Laurence Sterne

  Brave, Forgiving, Coward

  "Sermons" by Laurence Sterne, vol. I, No. 12, 1760.

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• Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Adventure

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

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• When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Letting Go, Evil, Forgiving

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• The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Heart, Hatred, Forgiving

  Lawana Blackwell (2008). “The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark (The Gresham Chronicles Book #3)”, p.443, Baker Books

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• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Peace, Good Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

  Indira Gandhi

  History, Bravery, Virtue

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• Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

  Marianne Williamson

  Letting Go, Past, People

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• It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Powerful

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2016

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• His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Heart, World

  Letters and Social Aims "Greatness" (1876)

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• Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Heart, Forgiving, Mind

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• We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

  Voltaire

  Death, Nature, Mistake

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.272

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• If any dust of imperfection cling to your heart, be not troubled, but consume it immediately in the fire of divine love, and, sorrowfully asking forgiveness, continue to live in peace.

  Paul of the Cross

  Heart, Fire, Dust

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• When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

  Catherine Ponder

  Relationship, Emotional, Forgive And Forget

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• Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

  Loren Cunningham

  Missionary, Doe, Causes

  "The God They Never Knew: The Tragedy of Religion Without Relationship". Book by George Otis, Jr., 1978.

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• One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

  Jimmy Carter

  Spiritual, Peace, Military

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.141, Three Rivers Press

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• Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Letting Go

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Inspiring, Sympathy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

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• You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.

  Janet Jackson

  Pain, Memories, Emotional

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• To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

  Confucius

  Positive, Attitude, Failure

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• Forgiveness is God's command.

  Martin Luther

  God, Healing, Command

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• Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Blow, Men, Forgiving

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"

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• What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

  Voltaire

  Failure, Errors, Law

  Voltaire, André Maurois (1939). “The Living Thoughts of Voltaire”

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• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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