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Forgiving Quotes - Page 32

The public seldom forgive twice.

"Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square, 1790.

To understand all is to forgive all.

Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.34, Penguin UK

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2894, Simon and Schuster

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.214, Transaction Publishers

My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us.

Billy Graham (2013). “Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith”, p.61, B&H Publishing Group

If we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us.

Antoinette Bosco (2001). “Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty”