(447 quotes found)
“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“You are never so strong as when you forgive.”
Kimberly Converse
“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
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations”
Oscar Wilde
“Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.”
Saint Augustine
“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
Bell Hooks
“He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
William Blake
“When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.”
Gerald Jampolsky
“Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.”
Christina Baldwin
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