Forgiving Quotations | Page 2

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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.

I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence.

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

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay.

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

I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.

Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.

To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.

However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to forgive beautiful women, especially when they lay a sorrowful tale before you like a sugar-dusted meal. It does not mean they deserve forgiveness.

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

We are vengeful. God is forgiving. We remember. God redeems.

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive one another. There is a great need for this Christlike attribute in our families, in our marriages, in our wards and stakes, in our communities, and in our nations.

The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans said that those who pass judgment on others are 'inexcusable.' The moment we judge someone else, he explained, we condemn ourselves, for none is without sin. Refusing to forgive is a grievous sin-one the Savior warned against.

Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.

When the Lord commands that we must forgive all men, that includes forgiving ourselves.

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again." "As for my pleasure..." His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it." He crooked a finger at me. "Come here.

I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the best parts. It didn't matter that he couldn't love me, that had nothing to do with it. But if I couldn't forgive him, then I could not love him, and that part of me was gone. And I found eventually that I wanted it back." ({Lord John, Drums of Autumn}

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Women can't forgive failure.

I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away.

Youre supposed to remember, and still forgive.

You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle.

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

God forgive you, but I never can.

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.

When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.

They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.

The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.

Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

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

Forgive yourself for not being at peace.

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

Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.

Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

You can always forgive, you just can't really forget.

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.

Think about a dog’s ability to forgive. This to me is love.

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.

So forgive me, love, if I cry in your shower. So forgive me, love, for the salt in your bed. So forgive me, love, if I cry all afternoon....

Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.

The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Beleive or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

Life is all about Living, Forgiving and Loving!.