Forgiveness Quotes A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.

Alexander Chase Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. Adlai E. Stevenson Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. Ausonius Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. John F. Kennedy Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting. Peter Allen Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. William Arthur Ward Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. Suzanne Somers Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. Indira Gandhi Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is bro ken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. Dag Hammarskjold Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of ange r, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Hannah More Forgiveness is the final form of love. Reinhold Niebuhr Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. George MacDonald Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. Saint Augustine Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Gerald Jampolsky God will forgive me. It's his job. Heinrich Heine

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgivin g another. Jean Paul I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not fo rgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned u p, so that it never can be shown against one. Henry Ward Beecher I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can for give are dead; the living have no right to forget. Chaim Herzog If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condem n. Friedrich Nietzsche It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. John Dryden It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. Grace Hopper It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. Lewis B. Smedes It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. Olin Miller It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them. Lana Turner Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care abou t religion. Alexander Chase Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love , prayer, and forgiveness. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. Marlene Dietrich One forgives to the degree that one loves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Garrison Keillor

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. William Blake The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might we ll arouse the envy of the gods. Elbert Hubbard The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possi ble. Alexander Chase The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mohandas Gandhi There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. Bryant H. McGill There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. Josh Billings To err is human; to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope To understand is to forgive, even oneself. Alexander Chase When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government. Alexander Chase When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised t hat the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. Emo Philips When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smoth er it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror sho ck and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it. Lewis B. Smedes When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the fut ure. Bernard Meltzer Without forgiveness, there's no future. Desmond Tutu 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