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Quotations about Forgiveness
My heart goes out to you. I cannot let the sun go down upon my wrath. I forgive you. I cannot sleep in hate.
The heart always has the pardoning-power. ~Madame Swetchine, translated by Harriet W. Preston
"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 Beecher
We should always forgive; the penitent for his sake, the impenitent for our own. ~Marie Dubsky, Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), translated by Mrs Annis Lee Wister, 1882
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself! ~Publilius Syrus, 1st century BCE, from the Latin by D. Lyman, 1856
All forgiveness is self-forgiveness. ~William Desmond, "Dialectic and Evil," Beyond Hegel and Dialectic, 1992
My dear, don't let the sun go down upon your anger; forgive each other, help each other, and begin again
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. ~William Arthur Ward, For This One Hour, 1969
The deep pain of broken trust has one cure, only one. It is the remedy of forgiveness... The first person to benefit from forgiving is always the person who forgives. When we forgive, we purge ourselves of the poison someone meanly put there. We lift ourselves from the bilge of hate and dance to the melody of inner healing. We set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was us. We create a new beginning for ourselves by unlocking the shackles that otherwise would hold us tight inside a painful past. Forgiving is for the offended, first. Later, for the offender. ~Lewis B. Smedes
I don't know that love conquers all, but it conquers a lot, and a little forgiveness usually does for the rest. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Forgiveness is a funny thing: it warms the heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward, For This One Hour, 1969
Forgive completely. They whose Words recall
Forgiven Faults, have not forgiven All.
~Arthur Guiterman, "Of Apology," A Poet's Proverbs, 1924
If you can't forgive and forget, pick one. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~Proverb
A woman's love is measured less by what she gives than by what she forgives. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1906, George Horace Lorimer, editor
Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963
It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend. ~William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion, 1804
Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. ~E. W. Howe
Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world. ~A Course in Miracles
Illusions about yourself and the world are one. That is why all forgiveness is a gift to yourself. ~A Course in Miracles
The cloak of forgiveness cannot be worn over the coat of resentment. ~William Arthur Ward (1921–1994)
To truly forgive is to let the other person forget. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The more forgiving we are, the freer we become. ~William Arthur Ward (1921–1994)
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