Forgiveness(47)

"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."
Hannah More

"Forgiveness is the final form of love."
Reinhold Niebuhr

"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."
Emo Philips

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
Alexander Pope

"One forgives to the degree that one loves."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"
George Bernard Shaw

"When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it."
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."
Lewis B. Smedes

"It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited."
Lewis B. Smedes