Quotes and Sayings on Forgiveness

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
Lenn Clark

Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds.
Sidney and Suzanne Simon

If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.
Mahatma Gandhi

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
Alexander Chase

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
George Herbert

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott

To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope