Forgiving Quotes

1882 Forgiving quotes by 1110 unique authors

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
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past. — Anne Lamott
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. — Jane Austen
You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you… — Jostein Gaarder
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
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. — Oscar Wilde
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
So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the… — Ted Dekker
Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative… — Jean Webster
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
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not… — Desmond Tutu
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
Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess… — Anne Lamott

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