Forgive Quotes

2380 Forgive quotes by 1314 unique authors

Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on… — Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we… — Lewis B. Smedes
Sometimes people hurt us unintentionally. We may view that they've hurt us intentionally and want revenge. But sometimes when we really look back again, we… — Cindy Wright
Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave… — Gary Smalley
Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul. — Choa Kok Sui
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he… — Orlando Aloysius Battista
I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins. — Alveda King
Enduring and forgiving are two different things. You must not forgive the cruelty of this world. It's our duty as human beings to be angry… — Hiromu Arakawa
Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night — Sarah Kay
Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like… — Craig Groeschel
But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for. — Chad Harbach
I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline. — Forrest Gregg
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive. — William Cowper
Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited… — Robert M. Hutchins
And now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid… — Frederic Farrar
We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always… — Ken Wilber
Ere thou sleepest, gently lay Every troubled thought away; Put off worry and distress As thou puttest off thy dress; Drop thy burden and thy… — Henry Van Dyke
Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive. — Saint Augustine
We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins.… — Thomas Paine
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live… — Andrew Carnegie
Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers. — William Spencer
We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive . . . by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times,… — Andy Andrews
God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature. — Julia Ward Howe
But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice… — Harold S. Kushner
More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms. — Jose Ramos-Horta

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