“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”
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Hannah More9
English religious writer and philanthropist 1745–1833Related quotes
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Heart of the Matter
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
Without Forgiveness There Is No Future (1998)
Georges Bernanos book Monsieur Ouine
Aucune haine ne saurait s’assouvir en ce monde ni dans l’autre, et la haine qu’on se porte à soi-même est probablement celle entre toutes pour laquelle il n’est pas de pardon!
The curé of Fenouille to the mayor, p. 208
Monsieur Ouine, 1943
“I'll tell you this —
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
"The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)" on the albums L. A. Woman (1971) and An American Prayer (1978)
Variant: No heavenly power will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
“Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.”
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian
Source: The Irony of American History (1952), p. 63
Context: Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
