Best Not Forgiving Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.”

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“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”

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Author:Emma Goldman

“But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.”

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Book:When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back

Source: When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back

“Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving. Acknowledge that and go easy on yourself. Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. Forgiveness is a powerful yet challenging tool that will support and honor you, even in the most extreme circumstances.”

“He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.”

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Author:George Herbert

“We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.”

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Author:T. D. Jakes

“Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception of reality. As we try to bend the world to accommodate our resentment, fear, and selfishness, we become less accurate in understanding the world. This eventually destroys our ability to cope successfully with life.”

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Author:Richard Walters

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”

“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”

“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.”

“When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.”

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Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”

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Book:Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends

Source: Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends

“An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”

“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”

“A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.”

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Author:William Arthur Ward

“Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him...even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven...Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.”

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Author:Mercedes Lackey

“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.”

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Book:Jesus is Victor

Source: Jesus is Victor

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?”

“An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.”

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Author:Lauren Oliver

“We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.”

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Author:Louise Hay

“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.”

“Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.”

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Author:Lance Morrow

“You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.”

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Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”

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Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.”

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Book:The Long War: (Long Earth 2)

Source: The Long War: (Long Earth 2)

“How many times should you forgive your household bruiser? You should not even think about forgiving him. Not yet. Not as long as he has his foot on your neck. Your problem at this point is not forgiving. Your problem is how to get out of his reach. Once you get away from him, you can think about forgiving him.”

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Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”

“By not forgiving, by not letting wrongs go, we aren't getting back at anyone. We are merely punishing ourselves by barricading our own hearts.”

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Author:Jim Cymbala

“Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me where He speaks without mercy and compassion. You visit not the sick and the imprisoned; nor do you feed the hungry or give refuge to the stranger or comfort to the mourner.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“When you remain angry with another person, you give away your emotional control to that person each time you think of him or here. You allow him or her to control your emotions at long distance. By not forgiving, you allow that person to run your emotional life, exactly as if he or she were right there with you and the situation was occurring all over again.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

Source: Wishful Drinking

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