Cannot Forgive Quotes
39 quotes by 32 authors
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the…
— Edward Abbey
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
— Publilius Syrus
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The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may give buoyancy to…
— Thomas S. Monson
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I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the…
— Amy Carmichael
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God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, 'Lord, I cannot forgive…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you.
— John O'Donohue
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Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there…
— Pope Francis
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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when…
— John Steinbeck
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Grace cannot forgive unconfessed sin.
— Rod Parsley
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But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable.…
— Susan Sontag
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I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give…
— Blaise Pascal
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
— Thomas Fuller
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He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to…
— George Herbert
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He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
— Marquis de Sade
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