Forgiveness

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.  ~ Josh Billings

Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.  ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.  ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.  ~ Corrie ten Boom

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.  ~ Joseph Jacobs

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.  ~ Oscar Wilde

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.  ~ John F. Kennedy

To err is human, to forgive divine.  ~ Alexander Pope

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.  ~ Franklin P. Adams

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.  ~ George Eliot

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.  ~ Italian Proverb

Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.  ~ Arthur J. Rehrat

It's easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.  ~ William Blake

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.  ~ Harriet Uts Nelson

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.  ~ Isaac Friedmann

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.  ~ Lily Tomlin

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.  ~ Joseph Conrad

The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.  ~ Mark Twain

Let us forget and forgive injuries.  ~ Miguel de Cervantes

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.  ~ Oprah Winfrey

Forgiveness is God' command.  ~ Martin Luther

Who understands much, forgives much.  ~ Madame de Staël

Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.  ~ G. Weatherly

Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.  ~ Catherine Ponder

Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.  ~ Kin Hubbard

Forgiveness is the final form of love.  ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.  ~ Catherine Porter

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.  ~ Saint Francis of Assisi

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.  ~ Grace Hopper

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

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.  ~ Marlene Dietrich

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.  ~ Publilius Syrus

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.  ~ C.S. Lewis

A man must learn to forgive himself.  ~ Arthur Davis Ficke

Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.  ~ Mathew 6:11-12

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.  ~ Elbert Hubbard

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.  ~ George Bernard Shaw

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.  ~ Gerald Jampolsky

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.  ~ Hannah Arendt

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.  ~ Alexander Chase

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.  ~ Christina Baldwin

They buried the hatchet, but in a shallow, well-marked grave.  ~ Dorothy Walworth

The offender never pardons.  ~ George Herbert

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.  ~ Gerald Jampolsky

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget.  ~ Thomas Szasz

To be social is to be forgiving.  ~ Robert Frost

Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting.  ~ Peter Allen

Judge not, that ye not be judged.  ~ Mathew 7:1

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.  ~ Mark Twain

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.  ~ C.S. Lewis

Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.  ~ H. G. Bohn

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.  ~ Thomas à Kempis

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.”  ~ Oprah Winfrey

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.  ~ George McDonald

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.  ~ Robert Muller

The cut worm forgives the plow.  ~ William Blake

Forgiveness is the most tender part of love.  ~ John Sheffield

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.  ~ Alexander Chase

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.  ~ Horace Bushnell

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.  ~ Norman Cousins