forgiveness quotes

• 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. (Benjamin Franklin) [thing/give/forgiveness/opponent]
• 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 James Balfour) [thing/give/forgiveness/opponent]
• 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) [thing/give/forgiveness/opponent]
• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. (Henry Ward Beecher) [god/mother/forgiveness]
• 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) [forget/willpower/forgiveness]
• There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. () [revenge/forgiveness]
• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. (William Blake) [forgiveness]
• Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. (Albert Camus) [absolute/virtue/forgiveness/logic]
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Mahatma Gandhi) [forgiveness]
• Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. (Mark Twain) [forgiveness]
• In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up. (John Updike) [forgiveness/women/being/women]
• The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved, ... I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it. (Tori Amos) [forgiveness/people/think/life]
• My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness. (Janine Turner) [desire/forgiveness]
• If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. (Nelson Mandela) [dreams/forgiveness]
• On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level. (Edward Albert) [understanding/forgiveness]

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