What Is Forgiveness Quotes - Page 4

• Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

  Alice Miller

  Forgiveness, Anger, Doe

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.248, Macmillan

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• The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

  Marianne Williamson

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Firsts

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.131, Random House

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• Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Forget

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• Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

  Phillips Brooks

  Forgiveness, Faults, Bears

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• A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

  Robert Fripp

  Forgiveness, Mistake

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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, Forgiveness

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• Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

  Billy Graham

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Men

  Billy Graham (2011). “The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Forgive those who have hurt you.

  Les Brown

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Forgiving

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

  Laurence Sterne

  Forgiveness, Brave, Forgiving

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

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• Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

  Desmond Tutu

  Forgiveness, Way, Pretending

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