Forgiving Quotes

1882 Forgiving quotes by 1110 unique authors

Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would… — Peter Carey
... but if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger will poison you.… — Heather Brewer
To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we… — Marilynne Robinson
Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all… — Jonathan Carroll
Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to… — Melina Marchetta
We remain silent because we've taken on a responsibility and/or shame that was never ours to carry. Forgive yourself for things that were not your… — Tammara Webber
She couldn’t help wondering if that was how one made the decision to forgive or not. If letting go hurt more than accepting someone’s mistakes. — C.C. Hunter
the most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her. — Charles Dickens
Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your… — Frederick Buechner
We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so… — Deb Caletti
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who… — Emily Giffin
I believe that the most urgent need of parents today is to instill in our children a moral vision: what does it mean to be… — Marianne Williamson
But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
But I don't forget and I don't forgive. — Philippa Gregory
The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows. — Agatha Christie
understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled. — Malcolm Gladwell
..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'. — Helen Fielding
The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well.… — Miroslav Volf
Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt — Mary McLeod Bethune
In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I… — Natsuo Kirino
Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones. — Masashi Kishimoto
All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by… — Neal Shusterman
I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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