“Go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.”
Laurence Sterne
GentlenessLetting Go
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.
“Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back, guilty of dust and sin.”
George Herbert
GracePoetry
“Pardon others often, thyself never.”
Publilius Syrus
Self DisciplineShort Quotes
“If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own.”
Marcus Aurelius
StoicismPeace Of Mind
“Remember that to change thy opinion and to follow him who corrects thy error is as consistent with freedom as it is to persist in thy error.”
Marcus Aurelius
Admitting MistakesHumility
“We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
Jonathan Swift
HatredLove
“There is only one defect in forgiving persons, and not another; that defect is that people take a forgiving person to be weak. That defect, however, should not be taken into consideration, for forgiveness is a great power.”
The Mahabharata
StrengthPower
“With overweening pride when men with injuries assail, by thine own righteous dealing shalt thou mightily prevail.”
Thiruvalluvar
Rising AboveCharacter
“In nature there's no blemish but the mind; none can be call'd deform'd but the unkind.”
William Shakespeare
KindnessCharacter
“Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?”
William Shakespeare
Judging OthersMercy
“Though justice be thy plea, consider this, that, in the course of justice, none of us should see salvation: we do pray for mercy.”
William Shakespeare
JusticeMercy
“Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?”
William Shakespeare
GraceHumility
“As you from crimes would pardon'd be, let your indulgence set me free.”
William Shakespeare
Being ForgivenFreedom
“Enlarge the man committed yesterday, that rail'd against our person.”
William Shakespeare
LeadershipMercy
“Fear not: for am I in the place of God?”
The Bible (Genesis 50:19)
FamilyLetting Go
“Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.”
The Bible (Exodus 32:32)
SacrificeIntercession
“And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word.”
The Bible (Numbers 14:20)
Answered PrayerMercy
“To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 32:35)
RevengeJustice
“Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive.”
The Bible (1 Kings 8:39)
PrayerFaith
“And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends.”
The Bible (Job 42:10)
FriendshipRestoration
“Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation.”
The Bible (Psalm 51:12)
RestorationJoy
“A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.”
The Bible (Psalm 51:17)
RepentanceHumility
“And deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.”
The Bible (Psalm 79:9)
PrayerGod's Mercy
“Thou wast a God that forgavest them.”
The Bible (Psalm 99:8)
God's MercyFaith
“He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.”
The Bible (Psalm 103:9)
AngerGod's Mercy