Forgiveness Quotations

The daily bread of grace, without which nothing can be achieved, is given to the extent to which we ourselves give and forgive. -- Aldous Huxley

Good to forgive--
Best to forget.
-- Robert Browning

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. -- Book of Common Prayer: The Lord's Prayer

We forgive to the extent that we love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would reach heaven: for every one has need to be forgiven. -- Thomas Fuller

Life to me appears too short to be nursing animosity or registering wrongs. -- Charlotte Bronte

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. -- Josiah Bailey

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. -- Norman Cousins

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies --Voltaire. -- Voltaire from Tentmakers Forgiveness Quotes

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement. -- Horace Bushnell

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine eyes; forgive thyself little and others much. -- Robert Leighton

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. -- Norman Vincent Peale

The brave only know how to forgive. -- Sterne

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. -- Johann Kaspar Lavatar

It err is human; to forgive, divine. -- Alexander Pope

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. -- Luke 17:3

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. - Edward Herbert

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has for its first duty to forgive. -- Edward Bulwer Lytton

God's way of forgiving is thorough and hearty,—both to forgive and to forget; and if thine be not so, thou hast no portion of His.-- Leighton