Forgive Quotes

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

God forgive you, but I never can.

I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

The public seldom forgive twice.

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.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

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

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.