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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON FORGIVENESS 2
Better a red face than a black heart.
Portuguese Proverb (Sayings of Portuguese origin)
Better a red face than a black heart.
Portuguese Proverb (Sayings of Portuguese origin)
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato (BC 427?-347?, Greek philosopher)
Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.
Catherine Ponder
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope (1688-1744, British poet, critic, translator)
To err is human, to forgive is divine.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744, British poet, critic, translator)
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
Catherine Porter
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.
Spanish Proverb (Sayings of Spanish origin)
Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.
Arthur J. Rehrat
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825, German novelist)
From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.
Molly Ringwald (1968-, American actress)
From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.
Molly Ringwald (1968-, American actress)
The heart has always the pardoning power.
Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782-1857, Russian author)
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818-1885, American humorist)
Forgiveness is the most tender part of love.
John Sheffield
Forgiveness is the most tender part of love.
John Sheffield
Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822, British poet)
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek tragic poet)
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.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
Who understands much, forgives much.
Anne Germain De Stael (1766-1817, French-Swiss novelist)
We easily pardon an offense we had part in.
Author Unknown
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768, British author)
Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own forgiveness.
Meridel Le Sueur
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
Koran Sura
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz (1920-, American psychiatrist)
Forgive! How many will say, "forgive," and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)
And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. [Ephesians 4:32]
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: John 3:16
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Matthew 6:11-12
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Ephesians 1:7
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice; and be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Ephesians 4:31-32
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Job 14:17
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind."
John Tillotson (1630-1694, British theologian, Archbishop of Canterbury)
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
A person of gladness rarely falls into madness.
Author Unknown
A reconciled friend is a double enemy.
Author Unknown
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Author Unknown
Forgive and forget.
Author Unknown
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
Author Unknown
He who forgives ends the quarrel
Author Unknown
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
Author Unknown
It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
Author Unknown
Never repeat old grievances.
Author Unknown
Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.
Author Unknown
They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.
Author Unknown
Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.
Author Unknown
Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.
Author Unknown
To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.
Author Unknown
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.
Charles William
Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.
G. Weatherly
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952, Indian spiritual author, lecturer)
God has a big eraser.
Billy Zeoli
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
Johann Georg Zimmermann (1957-, German physicist)
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