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Forgiveness

Quotations from the Wayside

Help us, O God, through others’ faults to their needs.
ANONYMOUS

It is difficult indeed to forgive a man for not forgiving you.
TIMOTHY HUME BEHRENDT

To forgive is wisdom; to forget is genius.
JOYCE CARY

Love is not real until forgiveness is real.
JOHN F. HAYWARD

We forgive to the extent that we love.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.
F. W. ROBERTSON

It is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

The heart has always the pardoning power.
ANNE SWETCHINE

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.
PETER USTINOV

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