Forgiving Quotes

1882 Forgiving quotes by 1110 unique authors

To err is human; to forgive, divine. — Alexander Pope
I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself. — Queen Rania of Jordan
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. — Hyman Rickover
Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared. — Geraldo Rivera
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
One forgives to the degree that one loves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you… — Susan Sarandon
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. — George Bernard Shaw
I think it's harder to forgive ourselves for mistakes that we made because we keep dwelling on it. We want to know how it affects… — Sherri Shepherd
The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I… — Sherri Shepherd
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way… — Lewis B. Smedes
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. — Lewis B. Smedes
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. — Lewis B. Smedes
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in… — Lewis B. Smedes
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has… — Lillian Smith
Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look… — Charles Stanley
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. — Laurence Sterne
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. — Laurence Sterne
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. — Thomas Szasz

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