Quotes with forgiveness

  • We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
  • Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.
  • Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

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  • Francis Maitland Balfour The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
    Francis Maitland Balfour
    British biologist (1851 - 1882)
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  • Lawana Blackwell Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • Paul Boese Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
    Paul Boese
    American filmmaker
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  • Albert Camus Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • C. S. Lewis Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Leo Tolstoy Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Billy Graham Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bell Hooks 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
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Ella Higginson Forgive you? - Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.
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  • Indira Gandhi Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
    Indira Gandhi
    Indian stateswoman (1917 - 1984)
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  • Hillary Clinton Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.
    Hillary Clinton
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Erwin W. Lutzer Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.
    Erwin W. Lutzer
    American evangelical Christian pastor
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  • Martin Luther Forgiveness is God's command.
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  • Mark Twain Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo 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 of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Lily Tomlin Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Alice Duer Miller Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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