Forgiveness
172 quotes: 14 by Keith Craft, 158 from other voices.
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- Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
- Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive.
- Successful marriage: The union of two good forgivers.
- He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.Lord HerbertCommonly attributed
- The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
- The best sort of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury.
- The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like that.
- The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
- The cloak of forgiveness cannot be worn over the coat of resentment.William Arthur WardCommonly attributed
- The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
- The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
- The man who cannot forgive destroys a bridge which he will have to cross, because every person needs forgiveness.
- The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
- The more forgiving we are, the freer we become.
- The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.Timothy KellerCommonly attributed
- The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
- The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
- The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
- There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.George HerbertCommonly attributed
- Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.
- To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
- To be able to bear provocation is, an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
- To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.
- To begin loving people today, we must close the door on the past. And that cannot happen without forgiveness! Forgive those who have hurt you - for your sake, not because they deserve it.
- To err is human, to forgive divine.Alexander PopeCommonly attributed
- To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
- Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.
- Until we can forgive, we remain locked in our pain and locked out of the possibility of experiencing healing and freedom, locked out of the possibility of being at peace.
- We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.C. S. LewisCommonly attributed
- We forgive too little; forget too much.
- We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
- We should always forgive; the penitent for his sake, the impenitent for our own.Marie DubskyCommonly attributed
- Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.
- What is past is past. There is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
- Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
- When a deep injury is done to us, we never heal until we forgive.
- When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.
- When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
- When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.