Forgiveness Quotes

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

David Augsburger

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

Josiah W. Bailey

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honore de Balzac

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

William Blake

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Samuel Butler

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Marlene Dietrich

Forgotten is forgiven.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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 again made clean.

Dag Hammarskjold

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

Heinrich Heine

Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.

Kin Hubbard

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Publilius Syrus

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Marianne Williamson