Forgiving Quotes

1882 Forgiving quotes by 1110 unique authors

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before… — William Arthur Ward
Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. — Sri Chinmoy
...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended… — Christopher McDougall
On those days when we're not ready to stop being offended, not ready to forgive, still determined to dish out the silent treatment, what we're… — Sheri L. Dew
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. — Oscar Wilde
My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. — Oscar Wilde
In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is… — Pat Conroy
In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don’t… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to… — William Wilberforce
If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of… — Rick Warren
To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are… — Dalai Lama
I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted… — Elton John
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. — Dale Carnegie
It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our… — Willa Cather
Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last bread, for the… — Paullina Simons
Oh, Callie-mine," Anne said, her voice taking on a tone she'd used when Callie was a little girl and crying over some injustice, "your white… — Sarah MacLean
I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t… — Robert W. Service
It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a… — George MacDonald
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.… — Oscar Wilde
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us.… — Mitch Albom
What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett. — Agatha Christie
It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when… — Jodi Picoult
You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. — Oscar Wilde
Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What… — Jodi Picoult
...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.... From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood… — Timothy Keller

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