Quotes on Forgiveness

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
~Paul Boose

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

~Catherine Ponder

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
~Sir. Francis Bacon

The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights.  ~Nathan Croall

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.  ~Roberto Assagioli

He that carries bitterness to bed with him will find the devil creeping between the sheets. ~William Secher  

We cannot be right with God when we are wrong with others. ~Lehman Strauss 

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. ~Robert Quillen