Here’s a small collection of quotes on forgiveness.
I especially like the quote by Catherine Ponder, it’s an accurate and useful observation of how things can work.
And it’s a good reason to forgive.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boose
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
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbour as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Sir. Francis Bacon
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave.
Ivern Ball
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller
True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.
David Ridge
Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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Thanks, these are indeed inspirational. Just a couple days ago I was delighted to come across this one: “Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past. – Alexa Young”
Thank you, Danny. That´s a great quote.
My absolute favorite is by Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the sweet smell left by the flower on the bottom of the shoe which trampled it.
Mahatma Gandhi epitomizes forgiveness, so it’s wonderful to see his quote there. Another one I like:
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin
those for sure, are great quotes.
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