Forgiveness
172 quotes: 14 by Keith Craft, 158 from other voices.
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- Forgive thyself little, and others much.
- Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
- Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future.Paul Lewis BoeseSourced
- Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.
- Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
- Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
- Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
- Forgiveness is better than revenge; for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge the sign of a savage nature.EpictetusCommonly attributed
- Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it’s accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.
- Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
- Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
- Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
- Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.
- Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
- Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.
- Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
- Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
- Forgiveness isn’t approving what happened. It’s choosing to rise above it.
- Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
- Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.
- Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.
- Forgiving trespasses is good always; Forgetting them hath even higher praise
- God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.
- Good-nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
- Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.
- Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored & destroy the object on which it is poured.
- Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.
- Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
- Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
- Hatred is self-punishment.
- He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for every one has need to be forgiven.
- He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.
- He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
- He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker; if weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
- He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
- He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
- Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
- I can forgive, but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.Henry Ward BeecherCommonly attributed
- 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.
- I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.