Forgiveness Quotes - Page 8

• The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, World, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.159, Penguin

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• What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

  William Carlos Williams

  Done, Intervention, Has Beens

  William Carlos Williams (1967). “Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my God, for having outraged Thee by my sins. Pardon me, O holiness of my God, for having so long stained Thy sight's purity by my sins. Pardon me, O mercy of my God, for having despised so long Thy mercy's voice. In deep sorrow and contrition, I cast myself at Thy feet: Have mercy on me.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Voice, Feet, Sight

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• Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

  Paul Tillich

  Acceptance, Our Love, Overcoming

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.10, U of Nebraska Press

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• Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

  Frederick William Faber

  Faith, Kindness, Converting

  "Spiritual conferences".

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• Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Forgotten is forgiven.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Forgiving, Forgotten, Forgiven

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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• If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

  Nelson Mandela

  Beautiful, Dream, Two

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

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• One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

  Bernard Baruch

  Life, Positive, Women

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• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  Oscar Wilde

  Letting Go, Book, School

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• Forgive thyself little, and others much.

  Leighton Meester

  Humility, Forgiving, Littles

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• He who forgives readily only invites offense.

  Pierre Corneille

  Forgiving, Offense, Invites

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Cinna, IV. 4, 1922.

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• Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Pride, Forever, Political

  "Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.

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• Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Trust, Truth, Forgiving

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• Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

  Juvenal

  Humble, People, Wish

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, III, line 39, 1890.

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• We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, Forgiving, Enemy

  Francis Bacon (1861). “Literary and Professional Works”, p.154

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• Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you....If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

  Emmet Fox

  Inspirational, Hurt, Pain

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• Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

  John Dryden

  Doe, Done, Literature

  'The Conquest of Granada' (1670) pt. 2, act 1, sc. 2

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• Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

  Betty Smith

  Inspirational, Cost, Values

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

  Madame de Stael

  Inspirational, Forgiving, Feels

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• Do you think that every time you make a mistake, He is mad at you and won't talk to you...or that you must somehow make up for it?...Many Christians fail to experience real peace because they don't understand that they are righteous in Christ. Until people stop living according to the way they feel and stand on who they are in Christ, they will never find true happiness.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Real, Mistake

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• Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged deep. And we must expect some lapses...some people seem to manage to finish off forgiving in one swoop of the heart. But when they do, you can bet they are forgiving flesh wounds. Deeper cuts take more time and can use a second coat.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Time, Heart, Cutting

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• A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Wise, Judging, Justice

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• Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

  Jean Paul

  Beautiful, Humanity, Forgiving

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