Values & Character: Forgiveness Quotes

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"He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well"

John Milton, Poet

John Milton

"The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

Edwin Louis Cole

"Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years"

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

"God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

Saint Teresa of Avila

"Life is an adventure in forgiveness"

Norman Cousins, Author

"While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"Where there is injury, let me sow pardon"

Francis of Assisi, Saint

Francis of Assisi

"One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not"

Orlando A. Battista, Author

"Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them"

Lana Turner, Actress

Lana Turner

"He bore no grudge against those he had wronged"

Simone Signoret, Actress

"I don't go down the road of condemning"

Joel Osteen, Clergyman

"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt"

Saint Aurelius Augustine, Theologian

"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it, of a great mind"

John Tillotson, Theologian

John Tillotson

"Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts"

Mary Chesnut, Author

Mary Chesnut

"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated"

Coretta Scott King, Activist

"We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness"

Frederick William Robertson, Clergyman

"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons"

Jessica Lange, Actress

Jessica Lange

"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance"

Gilbert Parker, Politician

"When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future"

Bernard Meltzer, Lawyer

"We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends"

P. D. James, Novelist

"Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?"

Jules Feiffer, Cartoonist

"Hatred doesn't make any sense. It's a poison. You can't spend life trying to collect debts no one is going to pay. That is not life. Life is tomorrow"

José Mujica, President

José Mujica

"I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself"

Charles Simeon, Clergyman

"My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself"

Tatum O'Neal, Actress

"It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner"

Giovanni Guareschi, Journalist

"Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself"

Harriet Nelson, Actress

"I feel like God has forgiven me of so much that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us"

Jim Bakker, Celebrity

Jim Bakker

"Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you, or someone else's actions against you"

Jennifer O'Neill, Actress

"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"

Lewis B. Smedes, Writer

"I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses"

Jack Abramoff, Criminal

"Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"A man is not good or bad for one action"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

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