Favorite Quotations ~  Forgiveness 3 Doing Good

"Forgotten is forgiven." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

What power has love but forgiveness?" ~ William Carlos Williams

Forgiveness is the demonstration that you are the light of the world. Through your forgiveness does the truth about your self return to your memory. ~ Course in Miracles

He who forgives ends a quarrel. ~ African Proverb

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you out of love takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld

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

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ~ Norman Cousins

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. ~ Alan Paton

We pardon to the extent that we love. ~ La Rouchefouchauld

If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty. ~ German Proverb

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed. ~ Ann Landers

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. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld

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