Forgiveness

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FORGIVENESS

      A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856–1915)

      Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down his life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
William Cowper (1731–1800)

     An injury is much sooner forgiven than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield (1694–1773)

      As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël (1766–1817)

      As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.
Agnes Sanford

      Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.
     For the sake of one good action a hundred evil ones should be forgotten.
Chinese Proverb

     Forgiveness is a funny thing—it warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward (1812–1882)

      Forgiveness is a required course.
Charles R. Swindoll (1934– )

      Forgiveness is man’s deepest need and highest achievement.
Horace Bushnell (1802–1876)

      Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a permanent attitude.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968)

      Forgiveness is not that stripe which says, “I will forgive, but not forget.” It is not to bury the hatchet with the handle sticking out of the ground, so you can grasp it the minute you want it.
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899)

      Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one who crushed it.
Mark Twain (1835–1910)

      Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note—torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)

     God will forgive me; that is his business.
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)

     Good to forgive;
Best, to forget!
Robert Browning (1812–1889)

     He that demands mercy, and shows none, ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.
Thomas Adams (1612–1653)

      He who forgives ends the quarrel.
African Proverb

      Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or when forgiving another.
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825)

      If God forgives us, we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than him.
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)

    If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty.
German Proverb

     It is cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred.
Hannah More (1745–1833)

     It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
Saint Francis of Assisi (c. 1181–1226)

     It is necessary to repent for years in order to efface a fault in the eyes of men; a single tear suffices with God.
François René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768–1848)

      Know all and you will pardon all.
Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471)

      Life lived without forgiveness becomes a prison.
William Arthur Ward (1812–1882)

      
      Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814–1880)

      Only one petition in the Lord’s Prayer has any condition attached to it. It is the petition for forgiveness.
Sir William Temple (1628–1699)

      Regard as enormous the little wrong you did to others, and as trifling the great wrong done to you.
Talmud

      The heaviest load any man carries on his back is a pack of grudges.
      The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine ii of Russia (1729–1796)

      The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899)

      They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
Philip James Bailey (1816–1902)

     To return evil for good is devilish; to return good for good is human; but to return good for evil is godlike.
      We achieve inner health only through forgiveness—the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves.
Joshua Loth Liebman (1907–1948)

      We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)

     We hand folks over to God’s mercy and show none ourselves.
George Eliot (1819–1880)

      We pardon to the degree that we love.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1813–1913)

      When God pardons, he consigns the offense to everlasting forgetfulness.
Merv Rosell

      When you forgive you in no way change the past—but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer

     You must choose to forgive whoever has wronged you. Forgiveness is not an emotion, it is a decision of the will.
Erwin W. Lutzer (1941– )

      Christians aren’t perfect—just forgiven.
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      Christians were quick to be forgiven unfortunately sometimes slow to forgive.
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?-- Abraham Lincoln

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. --William Blake

Forgiveness is the final form of love. --Reinhold Niebuhr


"Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare." - Lance Morrow

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. --H. Jackson Brown