Forgiving Quotes · Page 47

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments…

— C. S. Lewis

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

— Robert Breault

If we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us.

— Antoinette Bosco

If a person keeps coming back & you love each other enough to keep forgiving past mistakes, maybe you are really meant…

— Nishan Panwar

Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive

— Rudolfo Anaya

In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.

— Ron Fournier

When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.

— Herbert McCabe

Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

— Brennan Manning

Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, ‘You’re disgusting,…

— Adrienne Bailon

To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don’t ask for your forgiveness. I don’t deserve it. I only ask for…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His…

— Lewis B. Smedes

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of…

— Frederick Buechner

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling.…

— Eugene H. Peterson

We can all learn to conquer hatred through love -drawing on the power released through the practice of meditation to throw all…

— Eknath Easwaran

Allah wanted the people who have made sins to turn from their sins and make up for them in order to be…

— Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own…

— Caroline Myss

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing,…

— Mary Blakely

A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all…

— Stephen Elliott

I actually think in some ways that it might be more challenging to be bipolar because it's so mercurial - it's so…

— Claire Danes

Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I also never would have imagined I'd quote back a church lesson, but when the rest of the crowd stood up to…

— Richelle Mead

The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for…

— Salman Rushdie

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

— Norman Vincent Peale

If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?

— Max Lucado

God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...

— Leo Tolstoy

I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

— Maya Angelou

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

— Max Lucado

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

— Dale Carnegie

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

Please forgive me," Pleasant said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger.

— Derek Landy

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

— Melissa Bank

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it…

— Richard E. Grant

I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out.

— Warren Spahn

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive…

— Jack Abramoff

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.

— Salvador Plascencia

Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge. Amen.

— Marianne Williamson

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by…

— Oswald Chambers