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Inspirational Quotes About Forgiveness

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Index_card_top “You don't have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement.”
 
Dan Fallon -


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Index_card_top “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”
 
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993);
Actress, Humanitarian
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Index_card_top “Maintain composure in times of heightened emotion, reacting only when thoughts are calm and clear. Being sensible will open doors for solutions and creativity.”
 
Jaren L. Davis -
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Index_card_top “It's okay to look back at the past. Just don't stare.”
 
Benjamin Dover (1958-0);
Award Winning Investigative Consumer Journalist


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Index_card_top “It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.”
 
Joseph Addison (1672-1719);
English Essayist, Poet, Playwright And Politician.
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Index_card_top “Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.”
 
David Augsburger - Writer, Anabaptist Author


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Index_card_top “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
 
Honore de Balzac (1799-1850);
Novelist


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Index_card_top “Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.”
 
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887);
Clergyman, Social Reformer
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Index_card_top “There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
 
Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818-1885);
Humorist, Essayist
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Index_card_top “It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.”
 
Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818-1885);
Humorist, Essayist
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Index_card_top “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
 
William Blaker (1757-1827);
Poet, Artist


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Index_card_top “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
 
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Index_card_top “Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.”
 
Horace Bushnell (1802-1876);
Clergyman, Theologian


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Index_card_top “To understand is to forgive, even oneself.”
 
Alexander Chase -


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Index_card_top “Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.”
 
Lord Chesterfield -


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Index_card_top “Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”
 
Norman Cousins (1915-1990);
Editor, Writer
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Index_card_top “One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
 
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680);
Writer, Moralist
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Index_card_top “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
 
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948);
Indian Political And Spiritual Leader
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Index_card_top “There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.”
 
Sydney Harris (1917-1986);
American Newspaper Columnist
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Index_card_top “The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.”
 
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Index_card_top “Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.”
 
Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814-1880);
Universalist Minister, Author
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Index_card_top “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.”
 
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968);
Minister, Civil Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.”
 
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968);
Minister, Civil Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “To understand all is to forgive all.”
 
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Index_card_top “They learn tolerance for others' faults through our tolerance of their own.”
 
Cathy Ridner Tempelsman - Us Journalist


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Index_card_top “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
 
Lewis B. Smedes (1921-2002);
Author, Ethicist, Theologian


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Index_card_top “Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.”
 
Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768);
Novelist


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Index_card_top “Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
 
Mark Twain (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.”
 
William Walton (1902-1983);
Composer, Conductor


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Index_card_top “I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ”
 
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915);
American Political Leader, Author
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Index_card_top “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 (1902-1984);
Author
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Index_card_top “He who forgives ends the quarrel.”
 
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Index_card_top “Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.”
 
Ausonuis (310-395);
Roman Poet


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Index_card_top “Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.”
 
Euripides (480-406);
Greek Tragedian
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Index_card_top “To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
 
Robert Muller (born 1923);
Former Employee Of The United Nations


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Index_card_top “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 - Author
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Index_card_top “Without forgiveness, there's no future.”
 
Archbishop Desmond Tutu (born 1931);
Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. ”
 
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961);
Swedish Political Leader, Secretary General Of The United Nations
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