Quotes about Forgiveness
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
— Elbert Hubbard
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. 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
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
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
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
— John F. Kennedy
You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
— Tertullian
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
— Francis de Sales
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
— Abraham Lincoln
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
— Abraham Lincoln
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross