Forgive Quotes

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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world. — Camryn Manheim
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements. — Bryant H. McGill
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at… — H. L. Mencken
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. — Bernard Meltzer
A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or… — Joyce Meyer
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business. — Margaret Mitchell
Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. — Sun Myung Moon
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone. — Horatio Nelson
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my… — Henri Nouwen
I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good… — Gary Oldman
Can you really forgive if you can't forget? — Sarah Jessica Parker
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. — Alan Paton
It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you. — Tyler Perry
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life. — Tyler Perry
I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it… — Tyler Perry
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way… — Emo Philips
To err is human; to forgive, divine. — Alexander Pope
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. — Hyman Rickover
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. — Tom Robbins
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. — Maximilien Robespierre
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind. — Marquis de Sade
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

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