Forgiveness
172 quotes: 14 by Keith Craft, 158 from other voices.
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- If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
- If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little and others much.
- If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
- If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.
- If you don’t forgive your parents, you become them.
- If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
- In judging of others a man laboreth in vain, often erreth, and easily sinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laboreth fruitfully.
- Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.
- It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.
- It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.
- It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not committed myself.
- It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
- It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
- It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.Grace HopperSourced
- It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
- It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
- Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!
- Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
- Let us forgive each other. If we can forgive each other, then we can live in peace.
- Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them.
- Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
- Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Life is too short and there is too much constructive work to be done to justify us in "striking back" at everyone who says that which we do not wish to hear.
- Life is too short for long-term grudges.
- Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.
- Meet hatred with love and you elevate not only yourself but also the one who bears you hatred.
- Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.Edwin Hubbell ChapinSourced
- Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- No one has a right to mercy who can not himself show mercy.
- Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
- One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.
- Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
- Put from you the belief that "I have been wronged", and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.Marcus AureliusSourced
- Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
- Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more it spreads in human nature, the more ought the law to weed it out; for the first injury only offends the law, but revenge entirely sets aside its authority.
- Revenge of a wrong only makes another wrong.
- Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.