Forgive Quotes

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

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

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

I always forgive, but I never forget.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

I don't think I will ever be able to forgive myself for what I have done.

You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.

God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?

I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.