Forgiving Quotes

Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did achieve.

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.

Mothers can forgive anything!

…men never forgive like women.

The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.

We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.

Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge. Amen.

I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.

We need to forgive - but mindfully. We need compassion that powered by wisdom. That's the way to address our bullies.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.

I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight.

If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

Not 'Don' in that I-m-sorry-and-now-you'll-forgive-me-like-you-always-do-way. Not this time, Keenan." (Donya)

None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.

Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on.

Help, love, forgive, and create beauty.

Perdonare "Forgive Yourself)

Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.

You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving.

We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven.

We forgive but not forgotten

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good?

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]

But I don't forget and I don't forgive.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Will not God, who has commanded men to act thus, do as much himself and even more? For God commanded Peter to forgive till seventy times seven.

Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness.

Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.

Let us not forget this word: God never ever tires of forgiving us!