Forgiving Quotes

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

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

To be social is to be forgiving.

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

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.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

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.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Our God is a forgiving God.

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