Top 1200 Forgive Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on December 5, 2024.
I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.
The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.
Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.
I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]
Life is too short to waste time harboring bad feelings about anyone. Forgive, forget, then move on!
Forgive me, Your Grace. Are you suggesting a woman is some sort of … piece of fruit to you? One squeeze, and you know if she’s ripe?
Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.
Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.
Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
Forgive yourself first. Let go of past hurts and direct your spirit to goodness and hope by having gratitude.
Teens have a sensational narcissism and genuinely believe that their experiences are unique and can't be explained to adults. But we forgive them for their mistakes and naivete.
The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did achieve.
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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 matter.
It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.
Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.
I look at my reflection in the mirror and I see a girl who desperately wants to forgive a boy, but not without a hell of a lot of grovelling first.
I don't confess in my work because to me, that implies that you're dumping all your guilt and sins on the page and asking the reader to forgive you.
Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.
I recognise why I have such a strong inability to forgive certain people who betray me. It's chiselled in, like a name on a tomb stone.
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.
If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.
Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.
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 wasted years.
I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?
When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.
When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.
Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.
Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.
We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.
You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.
To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.
When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.
Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive
One of the greatest struggles of the healing process
is to forgive both yourself and others
and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts.
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.
To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.
I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.
The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.
