Forgive Quotes

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

You just have to forgive them for being men.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.