“Only the brave know how to forgive.”
Laurence Sterne
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Forgiveness Quotes
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Forgiveness Quotes
Read the best forgiveness quotes from Shakespeare, the Bible, the Mahabharata, Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin and more, with wise words on letting go and moving on.
“He that forgives gains the victory.”
Thomas Fuller
VictoryShort Quotes
“We pardon in the degree that we love.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
LoveHuman Nature
“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Human NatureFunny
“We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly.”
Voltaire
ToleranceHumanity
“Good, to forgive; Best, to forget!”
Robert Browning
Letting GoShort Quotes
“Forgive! How many will say 'forgive,' and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
HonestyGrudges
“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.”
Henry Ward Beecher
FriendshipLetting Go
“Then gently scan your brother man, still gentler sister woman.”
Robert Burns
CompassionJudging Others
“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see; that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”
Alexander Pope
PrayerMercy
“To forgive wrongs darker than death or night.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Deep HurtStrength
“If you can ever write under my name, 'I forgive her,' though ever so long after my broken heart is dust - pray do it!”
Charles Dickens
RegretAsking Forgiveness
“Forgiveness is holiness; by forgiveness the universe is held together.”
The Mahabharata
SpiritualityHarmony
“We are all of us wicked; whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosom.”
Seneca
HumilityStoicism
“Clemency, in whatever house it is found, will make it happy and peaceful.”
Seneca
MercyFamily
“Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; and He that might the vantage best have took found out the remedy.”
William Shakespeare
GraceMercy
“Let us not burthen our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.”
William Shakespeare
Letting GoMoving On
“By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeased.”
William Shakespeare
RepentanceFaith
“'Twas I; but 'tis not I: I do not shame to tell you what I was, since my conversion so sweetly tastes, being the thing I am.”
William Shakespeare
ChangeSecond Chances
“Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee.”
William Shakespeare
EnemiesLove
“Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.”
William Shakespeare
MemoriesLetting Go
“But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
The Bible (Matthew 6:15)
FaithBeing Forgiven
“And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
The Bible (Mark 11:25)
PrayerFaith
“Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.”
The Bible (Matthew 18:15)
ReconciliationHonest Talk
“Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.”
The Bible (Matthew 5:7)
MercyBlessing