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“Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.”

Truth Social Trust Forgiveness Forgiving Faults Cures Never Forgive

Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.”

Evil Forgiveness Forgiving Forgiven What Is Forgiveness Power Of Forgiveness Forgiving Others No Forgiveness

Author:Antonio Porchia

“Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.”

“None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our spite, make adjustments, and make believe we are too good to be hateful. But the truth is that we do not dare to risk admitting the hate we feel because we do not dare to risk forgiving the person we hate.”

Want Feels Believe Persons Hate Risk Truth Is Forgiveness Crisis Forgiving Dare Deny Spite Hateful Adjustment Admitting Make Believe Detours

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel”

Law Forgiveness Forgiving Command Injury Followers Redeemer

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And He invites us all to forgive each other.”

People World Term Hurt Forgiveness Forgiving Invention Invites Unfair

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.”

Believe Children Death Prayer Willing Forgiveness Forgiving Great Men Our Prayers Saying A Prayer

Book:Prevailing Prayer

Source: Prevailing Prayer

“The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.”

Looks Past Names Forgiveness Forgiving Our Past

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.”

Use Forget Forgiveness Forgiving Handle Hatchet

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people we forgive them, we must leave them free to respond to our good news however they are inclined. If the response is not what we hoped for, we can go home and enjoy our own healing in private.”

People Ifs Want Mean Matter Home Enjoy Healing Demand News Forgiveness Forgiving Response Good News Heartfelt

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”

Friendship Enemy Ought Forgiveness Forgiving Forgiven

Book:Literary and Professional Works

Source: Literary and Professional Works

“Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.”

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Author:William Blake

“It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.”

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Author:Alan Paton

“God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?”

Forgiveness Forgiving God Forgives

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.”

Understanding Secret Forgiveness Forgiving

Author:Josh Billings

“Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”

Firsts Reason Lasts Law Life Is Adventure Forgiveness Mercy Forgiving Prerogative Life Is An Adventure Mercy And Forgiveness

Author:John Dryden

“Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.”

Mind Littles Feelings Pleasure Enemy Forgiveness Forgiving Revenge Incapable Vicious Self Forgiveness Anger And Forgiveness No Revenge

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.”

Left Strong Social Sin Forgiveness Weak Forgiving Attributes Never Forgive

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.”

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Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.”

Sea Forgiveness Forgiving Loser Petty Rebuke Winner And Loser Sea Change

Author:Seamus Heaney

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because”

May Forgiveness Murder Forgiving Refuse

Author:George MacDonald

“Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.”

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Book:Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.”

Mean Easy Work Forget Love Is Practice Duty Forgiveness Determination Forgiving Endless Inconvenient Forgive Yourself

Author:Peter Ustinov

“When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.”

People Judging Wall Creating Forgiveness Forgiving Barriers Pushing Destroying

Book:Community and Growth

Source: Community and Growth

“Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us.”

Heart May Mean Doe Facts Feelings Enjoy Lord Happened Goodness Forgiveness Weight Forgiving Burden Burning Deep Within

Book:Landmines in the Path of the Believer: Avoiding the Hidden Dangers

Source: Landmines in the Path of the Believer: Avoiding the Hidden Dangers

“To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.”

Giving Stills One Thing Stage Higher Forgiveness Blessed Forgiving Comparison Honey Forgiven Sweetness

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876

“One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.”

Position Forgiveness Forgiving Oneself

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.”

Want Forgiveness Forgiving Forgive Yourself Want To Be Happy Punishing Yourself

Author:Louise Hay

“The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!”

Justice Forgiveness Forgiving God Forgives

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.”

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Author:Caroline Myss

“From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.”

Way Forgiveness Forgiving

Author:Molly Ringwald

“Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.”

Giving Heart Today Forgiveness Forgiving Offended Thirsty

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.”

Forgiveness Forgiving Forgiven

Author:Mother Teresa

“God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.”

Wise Conditions Divine Forgiveness Forgiving Repentance Arrangements Definite Atonement God Forgives

Book:Conditions of Success in Preaching Without Notes: Three Lectures Delivered Before the Students of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, Januray 13, 20, 27: 1875; with an Appendix

Source: Conditions of Success in Preaching Without Notes: Three Lectures Delivered Before the Students of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, Januray 13, 20, 27: 1875; with an Appendix

“When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.”

Millions Forgiveness Forgiving Pounds

Author:Reba McEntire

“I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.”

People World Should Our Lives Love You Like You Creating Forgiveness Forgiving Like Me I Forgive You

Author:Ray Bradbury

“It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.”

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Author:Fausto Cercignani

“Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.”

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Book:Castle Rackrent: And Irish Bulls

Source: Castle Rackrent: And Irish Bulls

“There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.”

Feels Forgiveness Forgiving Stupidity Indifference Weariness Persecuted

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Forgiveness is better than revenge.”

Forgiveness Forgiving Revenge Good Life

Author:Pittacus of Mytilene

“To love is human, it is also human to forgive.”

Humans Love Is Forgiveness Forgiving

Author:Plautus

“Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.”

Humans Divine Forgiveness Forgiving Good Sense Good Nature Err Is Human

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.”

Men Wells Sin Forgiveness Forgiving

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.”

Forgiveness Forgiving Godlike

Author:Peter Winter

“For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true living; Love scarce is love that never knows The sweetness of forgiving.”

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Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and normal between you.”