Forgiving Quotes
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Forgiving Quotes & Sayings
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It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.
— Don Henley
Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.
— Gary Smalley
He's not going to look back if you don't,' he said, 'They're the most forgiving creatures God ever made.
— Nicholas Evans
You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.
— Yasmin Mogahed
I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.
— Thomas Lux
The more people know, the more they forgive.
— Confucius
God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
And I thought - not for the first time - that forgiving and forgetting aren't mutually exclusive.
— Jodi Picoult
Always remember that we are here to be kind, loving, and forgiving. We are here to enjoy the abundant ecstasy of life.
— Debasish Mridha
I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.
— Jack Abramoff
...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.
— Cecily Von Ziegesar
Forgive others so that you may be forgiven.
— T.D. Jakes
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)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
If you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.
— Doris Lessing
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
— William Cowper
What if forgiving my mother also means forgiving myself?
— Iyanla Vanzant
Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.
— Gail Tsukiyama
Forgiveness in God's eyes is unconditional; no matter what you have done, you can receive forgiveness.
— E'yen A. Gardner
If you love a person, you can forgive anything.
— Herbert Marshall
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
— George Bernard Shaw
I think what it means is that central to living A life that is good is a life that's forgiving.
— David Rakoff
If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.
— William Shakespeare
Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
— Charles Churchill
The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
— Roland Barthes
The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.
— Anthony Kiedis
None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.
— Michael Huffington
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
— Paul The Apostle
The Lord is forgiving, but sometimes life is not forgiving.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
My mind is not a very forgiving place.
— Melissa C. Walker
A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.
— Stephen Richards
Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?
— Richard Siken
Forgive for your sake, if not for theirs. Those who can forgive live healthier, happier, and less stressful lives.
— Lori Palatnik
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
— Antonio Porchia
Who loves a lot, forgives a lot.
— Amado Nervo
Staying mad is easy. Forgiving someone takes guts.
— Jillian Dodd
Forgive that you may be forgiven.
— Seneca The Younger
May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.
— Charles Dickens
Nature does not forgive.
— Hermann E. Ott
She swears you can make it stop by forgiving and moving forward. I'm moving forward, but I'll never forgive.
— Carrie Ryan
I must forgive without noise or fuss.
— Albert Schweitzer
The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends
— Margot Asquith
You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.
— Nelson Mandela
I believe forgiving supports us most profoundly when it comes toward the end of our journey, when we intimately know what we are forgiving ~
— Jeanne McElvaney
I am now willing to forgive myself ... for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself.
— Iyanla Vanzant
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."
— Robert Southey
Only two miracles are worth seeing: The miracle of loving And The miracle of forgiving.
— Sri Chinmoy
I readily admit that I'm not, and have never been, big on forgiving.
That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive. — Karen E. Quinones Miller
That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive. — Karen E. Quinones Miller
Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free.
— Ralph Marston
The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.
— Swami Vivekananda
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
— Gautama Buddha
Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.
— Eric Jerome Dickey
Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.
— Bob Dylan
I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot.
— Ramon Maria Narvaez, 1st Duke Of Valencia
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
— Mignon McLaughlin
If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.
— Napoleon Hill
Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.
— Condoleezza Rice
I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.
— Tory Burch
I never forgive attacks on my work.
— Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Sometimes you have to forget and forgive. Forgive them for hurting you and forget that they exist!
— Jeffree Star
Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."
— Norman Vincent Peale
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Words don't come easily, like forgive me.
— Tracy Chapman
Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
— Jack Kornfield
Society is a little more forgiving of two women kissing than two men. It's sad but true.
— Tiffani Thiessen
We almost always forgive those we understand.
— Mikhail Lermontov
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
— Teresa Of Avila
To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
— Amelia Barr
Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.
— Raven-Symone
Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.
— Liane Holliday Willey
A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
— Stevie Smith
Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
— Edgar Degas
Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac?
— Thomm Quackenbush
We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.
— Julia Roberts
Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.
— Nouman Ali Khan
Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt
— Mary McLeod Bethune