Forgive Quotes

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

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.

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.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

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

The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.

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.

I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

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

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

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

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

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

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

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.

I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.