Forgiveness

Buddhism:

“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”

the Buddha

Christianity:

“Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand. To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.”

St. Francis of Assisi

Hinduism:

"The forgiving acquire honors here, and a state of blessedness hereafter. Those men that ever conquer their wrath by forgiveness obtain the higher regions. Therefore has it been said that forgiveness is the highest virtue."

the Mahabharatha

Islam:

“Those who pardon and maintain righteousness are rewarded by God. He does not love the unjust”

Qur’an 42:40

Judaism:

“Who takes vengeance or bears a grudge acts like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand.”

Jerusalem Talmud, Nedarim 9.4

 Sikhism:

“To practice forgiveness is fasting, good conduct and contentment”

  

Guru Arjan Dev