Quotes about Forgiveness

"To err is human; to forgive, infrequent."
-Franklin P. Adams

"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them."
-Lawana Blackwell

"Pray you now, forget and forgive."
-William Shakespeare

"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave."
-Indira Gandhi

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

"Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself."
-Ausonius

"Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives."
-Lawana Blackwell

"The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another."
-Emma Goldman

"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
-Norman Cousins

"No one forgives with more grace and love than a child."
-Real Live Preacher

"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."
-Real Live Preacher

"Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way."
-Real Live Preacher

"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

"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."
-Real Live Preacher

"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray."
-John Calvin

"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission."
-Stuart's Law of Retroaction

"People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right."
-Joanne Kathleen Rowling

"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
-Jessamyn West

"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

"My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business."
-Margaret Mitchell

"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."
-Alexander Smith

"Hollywood is more forgiving than the church."
-Richard Rossi

"If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?"
-Dolores Huerta

"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."
-Gerald Jampolsky

"Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend."
-Bonnie Jewell

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it."
-Mark Twain

"Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed."
-Oprah Winfrey

"Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone."
-Randy K. Milholland