Forgive Quotes

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Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go… — Philippa Gregory
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman… — Charlotte Bronte
If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience,… — Gabrielle Zevin
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. — Jane Austen
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart… — Henry James
The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
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 only shirt dirty… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus — William Shakespeare
Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never… — Robert Jordan
To understand is to forgive. — Blaise Pascal
When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When… — Dalai Lama
He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive. — Richard Yates
Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each… — Marvin J. Ashton
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
But even if you should betray me, I will forgive you. — Yun Kouga
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. — W. Somerset Maugham
love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad… — E E Cummings
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. — Charles Dickens
Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be… — Sidney Poitier
To understand all is to forgive all. — Evelyn Waugh
I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy. — Jonathan Carroll
Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision… — Alice Walker
And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all. — Ernest Hemingway
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him. — C.S. Lewis

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