Forgive Quotes

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves.

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

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

God will not forgive us if we fail.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

In a way I think Bill Clinton is more likely to forgive and move on or at least try to woo people who don't love him. But he never really tried to woo the press as much as he might have.

There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

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

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

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.

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

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

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

People can forgive each other.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

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.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.