FORGIVENESS QUOTES IV

quotations about forgiveness

Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future.

PAUL LEWIS BOESE

attributed, Quote: The Weekly Digest, February 19, 1967


God forgives; forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine prearrangement; forgives universally, on the ground of an atonement, and on the condition of repentance and faith.

RICHARD SALTER STORRS

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers


Traditional protestant thought on forgiveness is like that of a ping pong ball wherein you confess, then God forgives, you confess, God forgives, you confess some more and God forgives some more.

JAMES H. WARDEN JR.

One Hundred Reasons Why Born Again Believers Cannot Lose Their Salvation


Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Zanoni


First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

ELIZABETH LESSER

The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure


For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter
Of the Eternal's language; -- on earth it is called Forgiveness!

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

The Children of the Lord's Supper


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

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India, Mar. 23, 1931


Forgive others often, yourself never.

SYRUS

Maxims


It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude