Top Forgiveness Quotes
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Lewis B. Smedes
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky
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
Bryant H. McGill 
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama 
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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Corrie Ten Boom
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I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
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Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
Alice Duer Miller
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It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Grace Hopper
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden
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I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
William Brewster
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If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
Josh McDowell
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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