Forgive Quotes

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.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

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

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

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

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

I always forgive, but I never forget.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

I don't think I will ever be able to forgive myself for what I have done.

You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.

God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.

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.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

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.