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Scripture · Religious literature

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Matthew 6:14-15 · 60

★ 1.3

Novel · Coming of age story

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 1.3

I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown.

The Old Rugged Cross · 1912

★ 1.8

Religious literature

The highest sacrifice is a broken and contrite heart; the highest wisdom is that which is found in the Torah; the noblest of all ornaments is modesty; and the most beautiful thing that man can do, is to forgive a wrong.

Eleazar of Worms

1200

★ 1.9

Only the brave know how to forgive... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Laurence Sterne

1760

★ 1.9

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

1962

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

God be merciful to me a sinner.

Luke 18:13

61

★ 1.9

You can bear your own Faults, why not a Fault in your Wife?

Benjamin Franklin

1750

★ 2.2

Scripture · Religious literature

Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more.

John 8:11 · 90

★ 2.3

Scripture · Religious literature

Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.

Romans 5:20 · 56

★ 3.1

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it for ever.

Lord Chesterfield

1748

★ 3.5

God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here.

The Times of London · 1995

★ 3.5

Film · Psychological drama (film) · Drama (film) · Psychological drama · Drama

Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail.

Officer Jim Kurring

Magnolia · 1999

★ 3.6

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner · 2003

★ 3.6

Scripture · Religious literature

Then Peter came to Him and said, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven."

Matthew 18:21-22 · 60

★ 3.7

There is only one thing evil cannot stand and that is forgiveness.

2003

★ 3.7

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

1815

★ 3.8

The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.

2014

★ 3.8

Speech · Political speech

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

1996

★ 3.9

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive.

2013

★ 3.9

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