Forgiving Quotes
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.
I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.
Your fellowship with God flows freely when you're willing to forgive, but it gets blocked by unforgiveness.
Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.
Forgive for your sake, if not for theirs. Those who can forgive live healthier, happier, and less stressful lives.
The sign of sincere love is to forgive wrongs done to us. It was with such love that the Lord loved the world.
We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.
Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.
Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.
He's not going to look back if you don't,' he said, 'They're the most forgiving creatures God ever made.
Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."
Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.
The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.
I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.
You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.
Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One.
I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.
Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.
It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.
May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.
Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.
My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.
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.
