Quotes on What Is Forgiveness

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

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.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

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

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

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.