#Forgiveness Quotes

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”

“This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.”

“Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.”

“My rage is gone,And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully,Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city heHath widowed and unchilded many a one,Which to this hour bewail the injury,Yet he shall have a noble memory.Assist.”

“Pray you now, forget and forgive.”

“Pardon's the word to all.”

“If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.”

“Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.”

“Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed.”

“Flesh and blood,You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong-Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,Unnatural though thou art.”

“By Heaven, my soul is purg'd from grudging hate; And with my hand I seal my true heart's love”

“If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.”

“The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.”

“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.”

“The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.”

“If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.”

“Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.”

“So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!”

“As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.”

“One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”

“Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.”

“Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.”

“The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you.”

“Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.”

“When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.”

“How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!”

“Don't regret what's happened.If it's in the past, LET IT GO.Don't even remember it!”

“You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!”

“All forgiveness is self forgiveness.”

“Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.”

“Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.”

“There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.”

“If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity.”

“Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.”

“Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.”

“When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.”

“The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”

“Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.”

“The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad.Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person - yesterday ended last night.”

“There are no justified resentments.”

“Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past”

“Drink down all unkindness.”

“I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you”

“Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.”

“Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.”

“Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.”

“In order to forgive, you must have blamed.”

“You practice forgiveness for two reasons: to let others know that you no longer wish to be in a state of hostility with them and to free yourself from the self-defeating energy of resentment. Send love in some form to those you feel have wronged you and notice how much better you feel.”