Forgiving Quotes

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

You look at John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction,' you look at Donnie Wahlberg in 'The Sixth Sense.' People have liens against them in crazy ways and the audience is always forgiving - if you prove it.

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

Our God is a forgiving God.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

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.

To be social is to be forgiving.

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.