FORGIVENESS QUOTES

quotations about forgiveness

Forgiveness quote

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

The Shack


I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

KHALED HOSSEINI

The Kite Runner


As I free myself through Forgiveness, Myself dances around Myself. I stand in the Light.

GITA BELLIN

The Flourishing Mind

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It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Jerusalem


It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

GRACE HOPPER

interview, "Only the Limits of Our Imagination", Chips Ahoy, July 1986


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

MARIA EDGEWORTH

"An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification", Tales and Novels


For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

MATTHEW 6:14


Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

ANNE LAMOTT

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year


Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

JESUS

Luke 23:34


Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

HANNAH ARENDT

attributed, Aspects of Love: An Exploration of 1 Corinthians 13


Forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

MAYA ANGELOU

Facebook post, Nov. 22, 2013


But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Handmaid's Tale


He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man had need to be forgiven.

LORD HERBERT

The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury


Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.

RICK WARREN

Ladies Home Journal, Dec. 2008


They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus


Good, to forgive;
Best to forget.

ROBERT BROWNING

prologue, La Saisiaz


I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter
But my will gets weak
And my thoughts seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore.

DON HENLEY

"The Heart of the Matter"


To err is human, to forgive, divine.

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Criticism


I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


To receive an injury is to be wounded; but to forgive and forget it is the cure.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs