Forgiveness Quotes

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Forgiveness Quotes:
"Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule." - Lewis B. Smedes

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
- Abraham Lincoln

"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." - Cherie Carter-Scott

"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free."
- Catherine Ponder

"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury." - E.H. Chapin

Forgiveness Quotes:
"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

"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love." - Bryant H. McGill

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

"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

"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Robert Muller

Forgiveness Quotes:
"We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves." - Joshua Loth Liebman

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." - Paul Boese

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." - Mark Twain

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

"Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends." - Henry Ward Beecher

Forgiveness Quotes:
"Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time." - Sara Paddison

"True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment." - David Ridge

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits." - Hannah Moore

"The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves." - Chinese Proverb

Forgiveness Quotes:
"Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge." - Isaac Friedmann

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
- Confucius

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." - Lewis B. Smedes

"Forgiveness
Is the mightiest sword
Forgiveness of those you fear
Is the highest reward
When they bruise you with words
When they make you feel small
When it's hardest to take
You must do nothing at all...

- Jane Eyre

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