Forgive Quotes

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

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

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

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.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

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.

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

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

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

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.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

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

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

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.

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.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

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

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

The public seldom forgive twice.

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

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.