Sep 27, 2010

August 20 - Quotes I need to remember

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

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

"Holding resentment is like eating poison and waiting for the other person to keel over." - Unknown

"A heart filled with anger has no room for love." - Unknown

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself." - Harriet Nelson

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

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

"To forgive and not to forget is like burying the hatchet with the the handle sticking out." - Unknown

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

"Forgiveness means letting go of the

past." - Gerald Jampolsky

"We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice." - Louise Hay

"Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace." - Leo Tolstoy

"There is no love without forgiveness, and there are n

o forgiveness without love." - Bryant H. McGill

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." - Josh Billings

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