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3 December 2020 Dalai Lama

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

3 December 2020 Alice Duer Miller

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

3 December 2020 Bill Cosby

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.

3 December 2020 Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

3 December 2020 Andrea Thompson

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships – things like forgiveness and compassion.

3 December 2020 Jose Bergamin

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.

3 December 2020 Joseph J. Ellis

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

3 December 2020 Marianne Williamson

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 Jewel

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

3 December 2020 Marianne Williamson

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

3 December 2020 Saint Augustine

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

3 December 2020 Catherine the Great

I shall be an autocrat, that’s my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that’s his.

3 December 2020 Scott Adams

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

3 December 2020 Jennifer O'Neill

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

3 December 2020 Cheryl Hines

The things the writers have me doing on ‘Suburgatory’ are insane. I think they think it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

3 December 2020 Nicole Kidman

You’ve just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn’t help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it’s easy to say and harder to do.

3 December 2020 Billy Graham

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller

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

3 December 2020 William Blake

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

3 December 2020 Simon Wiesenthal

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

3 December 2020 T. D. Jakes

I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.

3 December 2020 Mary Chesnut

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

3 December 2020 Nancy Grace

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

3 December 2020 Frederick William Robertson

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

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