Forgiveness Quotes

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Hate, Cannot

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

Strong, Forgive, Weak

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

Forget, Forgive, Names

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

Courage, Mistakes, Admit

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

Nothing, Forgive, Annoys

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

Fragrance, Crushed, Heel

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Love, Powerful, Forget

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Lewis B. Smedes

Power, Hurt, Wish

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer

Change, Future, Past

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher

Forget, Saying, Two

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller

Cannot, Others, Forgive

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill Cosby

Yourself, Forgive, Bitter

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More

Anger, Heart, Hatred

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

Work, Him, Night

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Sorry, Angry, Nothing

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

Human, Forgive, Divine

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes

Free, Forgive, Discover

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Forgotten is forgiven.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Forgotten, Forgiven

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Robert Fripp

Mistake, Rarely

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky

Past, Means, Letting

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Genius, Public

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.
Saint Augustine

Lost, Again, Found

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
Bryant H. McGill

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