Forgiving Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

I can never forgive God for having invented the French

We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

Forgive that you may be forgiven.

We do not have to know how to forgive. All we have to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the how.

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .

Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him.

Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

Success--something your friends will never forgive you.

When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.

If someone lies to you, be quick to forgive & they'll be more apt to tell you the truth.

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

A coward never forgives.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.

Don’t be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.

We have been forgiven so much that nothing we forgive compares to the amount we have been forgiven.

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

You should be forgiving when others make mistakes, but not when the mistakes are in you. You should be patient under duress yourself, but not when it affects others.

The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.