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Repentance won't cure mischief.
-Scottish Proverb
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Forgiveness is love in its most noble form.
-Anon.
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Forgive and forget.
-Proverb
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Never repeat old grievances.
-Proverb
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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.
-Proverb
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Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.
-Proverb
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If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.
-Proverb
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Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.
-Mishkat Al-masabih
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In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.
-Hannah Arendt
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Bad men are full of repentance.
-Aristotle
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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
-Decimus Magnus Ausonius
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They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
-Josiah Bailey
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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
-Arthur Balfour
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I never forgive, but I always forget.
-Arthur Balfour
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
-Willard Beecher
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My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. Job 14:17
-Bible
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In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. Ephesians 1:7
-Bible
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And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32
-Bible
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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Books about Forgiveness
