Forgiving Quotes

You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.

If you stay in that new flow of positive behavior, it's hard to revert back to old patterns. But if you do fall off, just forgive yourself, recover quickly, and get right back on.

I'm willing to forgive the press, or forgive anybody, I was taught to love and forgive, which I do have in my heart.

I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.

Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Our God is a forgiving God.

We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.

I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.

We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.

It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.

What in your life allows you to give up to other people, and allows you to forgive others and accept forgiveness.

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.

Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated.

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.

Jesus died as He had lived-praying, forgiving, loving, sacrificing, trusting, quoting Scripture. If I die as I have lived, how will I die?

When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

I am ready to be healed. I am willing to forgive. All is well.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality.

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men

Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.

The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving.

As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

I’ve been enjoying a couple of post-Oscar burgers. So I didn’t fit into a lot of the vintage stuff. I wanted to wear something that was a little bit more forgiving.

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.

When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. We’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves.

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly - start with little unkind acts, otherwise you'll sabotage yourself. When we forgive, we forgive the actor, not the action.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.