3,711 Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

forgive what you can't excuse ...

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.