Forgive Quotes

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

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.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

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.

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.

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.