Forgiving Quotes

1882 Forgiving quotes by 1110 unique authors

Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render me in shame… — Cory Booker
The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision.… — Lewis B. Smedes
The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities… — Mark Twain
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. — Louis Dudek
We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive… — Louise Hay
When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love… — Saint John Chrysostom
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.… — E. O. Wilson
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them,… — Mother Teresa
You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may… — Maya Angelou
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior… — Alexander Pope
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not. — Mark Twain
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven. — Frederick Buechner
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those… — Mignon McLaughlin
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. — George Santayana
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. — Lewis B. Smedes
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. — Lance Morrow
Forgive yourself for believing that youre anything less than beautiful. — Iyanla Vanzant

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