Forgiving Quotes

God understands us, He waits for us. He doesn't get tired of forgiving us. If we repent and go to him with a truly open heart.

It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.

If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other’s toes, we’ll never have time to be friends.

Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.

In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Men are less forgiving than women.

He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." . . . Forgive him, he has no manners." I get by on good looks," Nick said.

There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.

There's just nothing funnier than, like, a guy awkwardly explaining to another guy that he's hurt his feelings, and then later, awkwardly, you know, forgiving him for doing that.

The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.

No worries. They don’t scare me. (Devyn) All right, but if my brain matter ends up smeared against a wall, I’ll never forgive you. (Alix)

To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don’t ask for your forgiveness. I don’t deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I’m not the fool I was once. (Styxx)

What have I to forgive and whom?

Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?"

Only two miracles are worth seeing: The miracle of loving And The miracle of forgiving.

Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what it is.

You need to learn to accept your flaws and forgive yourself.

But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.

Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.

I never forgive attacks on my work.

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.

Society is a little more forgiving of two women kissing than two men. It's sad but true.

Our sins are never too great for God to forgive.

Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.

If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive.

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

I do believe I can forgive almost any shortcoming a person may have except lack of enthusiasm.

You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.

To err is human, but to forgive, well that's right on.

We mirror God's mercy to us when we forgive another.

In order to forgive, you must have blamed.

Never forgive at the ballot box!