Top 1200 How To Forgive Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

I forgive because not to forgive would only hurt me.

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can't get him out, get help. It's available. In the meantime, don't let him near the kids, and don't let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There's an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]

The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.

We all say things sometimes to hurt people, so it's important to forgive and have peace with others and forgive and be at peace with yourself.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.

Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

In order to heal oneself, we must learn how to forgive.

We don't forgive because people deserve it, we forgive so we can see again.

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Forgive for your sake, if not for theirs. Those who can forgive live healthier, happier, and less stressful lives.

First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it.

It's amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.

The brave only know how to forgive.

When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.

Forgiveness is not a moral issue. It is an energy dynamic... Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience. When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you. When you choose not to forgive, it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome sunglasses that distort everything, and it is you who are forced every day to look at life through those contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job.

How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget?

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.

Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.

I also never would have imagined I'd quote back a church lesson, but when the rest of the crowd stood up to take communion, I found myself saying to Dimitri: "Don't you think that if God can supposedly forgive you, it's kind of egotistical for you not to forgive yourself?" "How long have you been waiting to use that line on me?" he asked. "Actually, it just came to me. Pretty good, huh? I bet you thought I wasn't paying attention." "You weren't. You never do. You were watching me.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

I think there are more people waiting to forgive me than I need to forgive them.

But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.

Forgive people so that Allah may forgive you.

If you can't forgive yourself, how can you expect me to?

The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus-and here is the awful cost of such freedom-a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive.'

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language.

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, 'Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.'

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.

The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it's one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

How can you not forgive someone who made you a better person?