How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope quote on Forgiveness
And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ”I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?”
Friedrich Nietzsche – Forgiveness
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Samuel Butler – Forgiveness
I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.
Marilyn Monroe on forgiveness
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire – Weakness, Fault, Forgiveness
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw – Youth, Forgiveness
I can forgive, but I cannot forget,’ is only another way of saying, ‘I cannot forgive.’
Henry Ward Beecher – Forgiveness
To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?
Mahatma Gandhi on forgiveness
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
