Forgiveness – select quotes
This is certain, that man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
~ Francis Bacon
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.
~ George Herbert
It may be infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice. It is spiritual murder, the worst, to hate, to brood over the feeling that excludes, that, in our microcosm, kills the image, the idea of the hated.
~ George MacDonald
Receiving forgiveness requires a total willingness to let God be God and do all the healing, restoring, and renewing.
~ Henri J. M. Nouwen, in The Return of the Prodigal Son
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
~ William H. Walton
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