Sunday, April 25, 2010

FORGIVENESS

The daily bread of grace, without which nothing can be achieved, is given to the extent to which we ourselves give and forgive. - Aldous Huxley

Good to forgive--
Best to forget.
- Robert Browning

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. - Book of Common Prayer: The Lord's Prayer

We forgive to the extent that we love. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would reach heaven: for every one has need to be forgiven. - Thomas Fuller

Life to me appears too short to be nursing animosity or registering wrongs. - Charlotte Bronte

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. - Josiah Bailey

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies --Voltaire. - Voltaire from Tentmakers Forgiveness Quotes

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement. - Horace Bushnell

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine eyes; forgive thyself little and others much. - Robert Leighton

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. - Norman Vincent Peale

The brave only know how to forgive. - Sterne

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. - Johann Kaspar Lavatar

It err is human; to forgive, divine. - Alexander Pope

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. - Luke 17:3

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. - Edward Herbert

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has for its first duty to forgive. - Edward Bulwer Lytton

God's way of forgiving is thorough and hearty,—both to forgive and to forget; and if thine be not so, thou hast no portion of His.- Leighton

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