Forgiveness Quotes

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

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

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

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

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.