Forgiveness
is an
essential part of living life to the fullest and in so doing we actually help
ourselves as much as those that we are forgiving.
"Instead, be kind to each other, tender-hearted, forgiving one
another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you."
-Ephesians 4:32 The Bible
“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the
sting.” -William Arthur Ward
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the
prisoner was you.” -Lewis B. Smedes
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of
saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn
in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbour as
ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we
hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We
forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when
we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.” -Eric Hoffer
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
-Voltaire
“He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall
receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.”
-The Koran
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure
do change the future.” -Bernard Meltzer
“Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense
benefits to the one who forgives.” -Lawana Blackwell
“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that
person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel.
Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
-Catherine Ponder
“In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should
forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a
chart.” -Hillary Rodham Clinton
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the
strong.” -Mahatma Gandhi
“If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive
others?” -Dolores Huerta
“Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision.” -Randall
Worley
“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins
for breakfast.” -Marlene Dietrich
“To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.”
-Franklin P. Adams
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.”
-John Sheffield
“The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart, far
more damaging to yourself than to them.”
-Lawana
Blackwell
