Quotes and Sayings About Forgiving
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I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
-- Aaron Carter -
My forgiving you doesn't make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.
-- Abbi Glines -
Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, ‘You’re disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.’ But women, we’re supposed to be like, ‘He messed up. He made a mistake.’
-- Adrienne BailonSource : "Rob Kardashian hits out at ex-girlfriend Adrienne Bailon on Twitter by sharing sister Khloe's post" by Jess Wilson, www.mirror.co.uk. July 31, 2014.
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The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.
-- Agatha Christie -
You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.
-- Agatha Christie -
We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
-- Alain de Botton -
Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.
-- Alan Cohen -
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You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.
-- Alan Cohen -
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
-- Alan PatonSource : Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.278, Simon and Schuster
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It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
-- Alan Redpath -
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Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.
-- Alanis Morissette -
To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.
-- Albert Camus -
My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.
-- Albert Camus -
To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
-- Albert Ellis -
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I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
-- Alexander Pope -
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
-- Alexander Pope -
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
-- Alexander Pope -
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It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely tolerant, generous, and forgiving. All things considered, it wouldn't hurt if we were, too.
-- Alexei Panshin -
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
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We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.
-- Alice MunroSource : FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Nov 09, 2013
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Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.
-- Alistair Begg -
Listen to me." He grabbed my arms, holding me there. " I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever.
-- Ally Carter -
Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life.
-- Ally Carter -
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I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.
-- Alveda KingSource : "Glenn Beck Appeals to 'Restore' the U.S., Al Sharpton Commemorates Martin Luther King" by Huma Khan, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2010.
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The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.
-- Alyson Noel