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Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness.

Meher Baba
22

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

Gangaji
22

The only way to peace is forgiveness.

Pope John Paul II
21

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.

Pope John Paul II
21

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Lao Tzu
21

Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of the mind. Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience. Hate - Lust, Anger, and Pride.

Sivananda Saraswati
20

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

Nelson Mandela
20

Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives.

Rumi
20

When people came to Christ accusing a person of doing wrong, the Master could not think of anything else but forgiveness. For he did not see in the wrongdoer what the others saw. To distinguish between right and wrong is not the work of an ordinary mind, and the curious thing is that the more ignorant a person is, the more ready he is to do so.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
19

A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

Mahatma Gandhi
18

If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion.

Sri Chinmoy
17

There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.

Pope John Paul II
16

Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

Dalai Lama
16

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable...he can give up anger immediately.

Neem Karoli Baba
16

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

Saint Augustine
16

The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
16

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

Mahatma Gandhi
15

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

Saint Augustine
15

Without forgiveness, there can be no peace.

Mahavira
15

Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
15

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

Mahavira
15

Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.

Meher Baba
13

Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness).

Sathya Sai Baba
13