Forgiving Quotes · Page 38

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

— Marcus Eremita

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

— Benjamin Franklin

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him…

— C. S. Lewis

Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.

— John Vianney

I think there are more people waiting to forgive me than I need to forgive them.

— Tim McGraw

“That’s what forgiving was: seeing someone for what they were, flaws and all, not what you wanted them to be, not what…

— B.G. Harlen

Today's games are more forgiving in the sense that you can save your game almost anywhere, and get back into the action…

— Jordan Mechner

Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger,…

— Dalai Lama

We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive.…

— Louise Hay

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive…

— Bell Hooks

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love,…

— Leonard Cohen

One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring…

— Sarah Bernhardt

If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran?…

— Adam McKay

And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.'…

— Anonymous

I truly believe that forgiveness is the fast track to greater love and it's the path that can really heal all. We…

— Marci Shimoff

I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to…

— Maya Angelou

I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days…

— Mother Teresa

Besides loving each other, we must bear with each other and pardon ? 'forgive them that trespass against us' ? in order…

— John of Kronstadt

Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to…

— David Wilcock

We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away…

— Gary Smalley

In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare…

— Noam Chomsky

If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.

— Warren Buffett

The Lord never gets tired of forgiving, it is we that get tired of asking forgiveness.

— Pope Francis

Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden.”

— Donna Goddard

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

— Albert Camus

Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.

— Lewis B. Smedes

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

— Oscar Wilde

You've never gone too far that God can't redeem you, restore you, forgive you, and give you a second chance.

— Lysa TerKeurst

We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

— Nicholas Sparks

We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people.…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

— Charles Dickens

Life is short. Make the most of it. Put God first. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Laugh a lot. Find and live out…

— Nicky Gumbel

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

— Ambrose Bierce

Show mercy. No soul ever was made poor by loving too much, or injured by forgiving too often.

— Catherine Bramwell-Booth

“True forgiveness creates the space for someone to be better even when they can’t see why they need to be better, or…

— Troy Hadeed

If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.

— Mata Amritanandamayi