George Herbert
“The offender never pardons.”
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Alexander Pope
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
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William Blake
“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
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Robert Quillen
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
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Reinhold Niebuhr
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.”
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Author Unknown
“Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.”
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William A. Ward
“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”
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Louis B. Smedes
“It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.”
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Psalms 103:3
“Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;”
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Abraham Lincoln
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
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Josh Billings
“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
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Oscar Wilde
“Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.”
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George MacDonald
“Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.”
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Marion G. Romney
"Forgiveness is as wide as repentance."
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Robert L. Simpson
"As we forgive, we achieve the right to be forgiven."
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Randall Worley
“Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision.”
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Franklin P. Adams
“To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.”
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Dolores Huerta
“If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?”
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Harold B. Lee
“The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.”
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Hugh B. Brown
"No matter what your past has been, you have a spotless future."
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Marion D. Hanks
“The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.”
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Mark Twain
“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
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Lewis B. Smedes
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
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William Arthur Ward
“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”
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Paul Boese
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
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Robert Brault
“If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.”
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William Blake
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
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Harriet Nelson
“Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.”
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George Herbert
“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”
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George MacDonald
“Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.”
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Frank McKinney
“Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet.”
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Thomas A’Kempis
“Know all and you will pardon all.”
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Dolores Huerta
“If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?”
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Martha Kilpatrick
“Without deep humility, true forgiveness is impossible…and will never happen.”
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Franklin P. Adams
“To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.”
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Author Unknown
“No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.”
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Author Unknown
“It takes a strong person to say sorry, and an even stronger person to forgive.”
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Voltaire
“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies.”
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Numbers 14:18
“The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression…”
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Joseph Smith
"Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous."
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Isaiah 6:7
“And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
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Isaiah 43:25
“I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.”
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George Herbert
“He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven
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Spencer W. Kimball
"The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.
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Sholem Asch
“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”
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Lewis B. Smedes
“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
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Abraham Lincoln
"With malice toward none, with charity for all…let us…bind up the nation's wounds."
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Author Unknown
“You may know you have been forgiven if you have peace of conscience and you no longer feel guilty.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
“Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.”
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J. Golden Kimball
"If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors."
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We frequently forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those whom we bore.”
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Jessamyn West
“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
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Luke 6:37
“Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:”
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Lord Chesterfield
“Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.”
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Logan Pearsall Smith
“Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.”
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Sydney Harris
“There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.”
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Roberto Assagioli
“Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”
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Cherie Carter-Scott
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.”
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Claire London
“I have learned that sometimes "sorry" is not enough. Sometimes you actually have to change.”
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Author Unknown
Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.
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Bernard Meltzer
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.”
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Jean Paul Richter
“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”
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Cherie Carter-Scott
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”
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Lawana Blackwell
“Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.”
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Hyrum M. Smith
"No man can find forgiveness for one sin because he is righteous in some other direction.
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E. H. Chapin
“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.”
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Hebrews 8:12
“For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”
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Dag Hammarskjold
“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 made clean again.”
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E.H. Chapin
“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.”
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Ephesians 4:32
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
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Author Unknown
“A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit.”
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H. Jackson Brown
“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.”
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Martha Kilpatrick
“We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven.”
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Ezekiel 33:16
“None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.”
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Lawana Blackwell
“The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.”
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Doc Childre
“Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile.”
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Stephen Crosby
“A mature Christian has capacity to absorb the offenses and weaknesses of others, not just demand they perform up to the code of ideals.”
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Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
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Matthew 5:44
"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."
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Mark 4:12
“That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.”
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Matthew 9:6
“But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.”
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Matthew 6:14-15
"For if ye forgive men their trepasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
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Daniel H. Ludlow
"When the doctrine of repentance is fully understood then it is seen that repentance is all that ever needs to be taught for repentance means not only to stop doing those things which are wrong but to start doing those things which are right."
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Louis B. Smedes
“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.”
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Jerimiah 33:8
“And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“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.”
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Ellen Goodman
“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck . . . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.”
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Sara Paddison
“Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me.”
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Dr. Sidney Simon
"Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves."
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Ezekiel 18:21-22
“But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live."
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Thomas S. Monsen
“Sometimes we can take offense so easily. On other occasions we are too stubborn to accept a sincere apology. Who will subordinate ego, pride, and hurt—then step forward with ‘I am truly sorry! Let’s be as we once were: friends. Let’s not pass to future generations the grievances, the anger of our time’? Let’s remove any hidden wedges that can do nothing but destroy.”
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Lance Morrow
"Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare."
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David & Bruce McArthur
“Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively.”
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Richard G. Scott
"If you, through poor judgment, were to cover your shoes with mud, would you leave them that way? Of course not. You would cleanse and restore them. Would you then gather the residue of mud and place it in an envelope to show others the mistake that you made? No. Neither should you continue to relive forgiven sin. Every time such thoughts come into your mind, turn your heart in gratitude to the Savior, who gave His life that we, through faith in Him and obedience to His teachings, can overcome transgression and conquer its depressing influence in our lives."
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask the Lord for strength to forgive. This expression of desire will be of the very substance of your repentance. It may not be easy, and it may not come quickly. But if you will seek it with sincerity and cultivate it, it will come. And even though he whom you have forgiven continues to pursue and threaten you, you will know you have done what you could to effect a reconciliation. There will come into your heart a peace otherwise unattainable.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“How difficult it is for any of us to forgive those who have injured us. We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue more in need of application in our time than the virtue of forgiving and forgetting? There are those who would look upon this as a sign of weakness. Is it? I submit that it takes neither strength nor intelligence to brood in anger over wrongs suffered, to go through life with a spirit of vindictiveness, to dissipate one's abilities in planning retribution. There is no peace in the nursing of a grudge. There is no happiness in living for the day when you can "get even."
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