Forgiving Quotations

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.

To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

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

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, ‘You’re disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.’ But women, we’re supposed to be like, ‘He messed up. He made a mistake.’

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

I'm always nervous! Especially when it comes to a series like 'Disgaea', where you do have such a devoted fan base, the last thing you want to do is disappoint. But I love playing bad guys and just always hope that fans will be forgiving if I miss the mark.

I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.

Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

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

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.

God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?

It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people.

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

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

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

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

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

I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.

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

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

My dad always said that 90 percent of marital problems could be solved by getting your blood sugar up, and he's right! So I would say pick a partner who's forgiving when you have low blood sugar and threaten to drive your car through your shared home.

Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to bones and joints than running on hard pavement does.

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us

Well, the coffeehouse audiences never know what they're going to get, and all the comics are different, as opposed to when you go to a club, and they're pretty much all telling jokes with set-ups and punchlines. Coffeehouse audiences are the most forgiving: They really listen, which is the best part.

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.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

You look at John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction', you look at Donnie Wahlberg in 'The Sixth Sense.' People have liens against them in crazy ways and the audience is always forgiving - if you prove it.

The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I know the Lord is like, 'Sherri what are you doing?' but I know I can go back and get on my knees and say, 'Lord forgive me.' I know he will never leave me nor forsake me. The wonderful thing is He answers my prayers in spite of me.

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

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

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.

I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the Savior, you can repent and plead for forgiveness. There is someone you can forgive. There is someone you can thank. There is someone you can serve and lift. You can do it wherever you are and however alone and deserted you may feel.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

No matter how many flaws we have, our God is so forgiving and understanding. He'll never leave you or forsake you. So that brings peace to me.

You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

There is nothing at all that God won't forgive

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

Well, it's a little harder in New York. It's not as forgiving to a film crew. You hold up a bunch of New Yorkers who can't cross the street, they're not going to take it well. Southern California? They'll wait. It's cool man. In New York, they're like, 'Are you kidding me? I gotta get to work.'

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

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

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

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

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

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

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.

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.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

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 tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.