100+ Forgiving Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "The Miracle of the Atonement". C. Scott Grow's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2011.

topic: Exercise, Suffering, Forgiving

Ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.

- C. Scott Grow

topic: Forgiving, Forgive Yourself, Wronged

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

- C.P. Snow

source: C.P. Snow (2010). “The Masters”, p.40, House of Stratus

topic: Men, Forgiving, Want

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

- Camryn Manheim

topic: Positive, Hate, Forgiving, Negative Energy

It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

- Caroline Llewellyn

source: Caroline Llewellyn (1994). “Life Blood”

topic: Laughter, Laughing, Forgiving

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

- Caroline Myss

topic: Forgiveness, Healing, Forgiving, Inspirational Healing, Time Heals All

Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events.

- Caroline Myss

topic: Past, Forgiving, Energy, Past Events

To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.

- Carter Heyward

source: Carter Heyward (1984). “Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation”

topic: Forgiving, Forget, Members

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.

- Catherine Ponder

topic: Forgiveness, Mind, Forgiving, Magnetic

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

- Catherine the Great

topic: Inspirational, Men, Forgiving, More Knowledge, Knowledge Wisdom

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

- Catherine the Great

topic: Teaching, Forgive Me, Forgiving

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

- Cecily von Ziegesar

topic: Forgiving, Forget

Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.

- Celia Cruz

topic: Pain, Women, Forgiving

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

- Cesare Pavese

source: Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.214, Transaction Publishers

topic: Forgiveness, Stupidity, Forgiving

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.

- Chad Harbach

source: Chad Harbach (2011). “The Art of Fielding: A Novel”, p.192, Hachette UK

topic: Forgiveness, People, Forgiving

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

- Chaim Herzog

topic: Forgiveness, Forgiving, Forget

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Running, One Direction, Forgiving, Deceiver, Feeling Bad

Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.

- Charles Churchill

topic: Brother, Forgiving, Dunces

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Travel, Forgiving, Left Behind

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Character, Interesting, Forgiving, Interesting Characters

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

- Charles Olson

topic: Sleep, Forgive Me, Forgiving

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

- Charles Simeon

source: Charles Simeon (1847). “Memoirs of the life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...”, p.303

topic: Forgiving, Reason, Should

The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Giving, Forgiving

hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice.

- Charlotte Forten Grimke

topic: Racism, Hatred, Forgiving, Hard To Forgive

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

- Chetan Bhagat

source: Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.198, Sandesh S

topic: Hurt, Feel Better, Forgiving

Jenn: Do you love him? Ani: Yeah, I do. Jenn: Then you can forgive him. It's not worth it to let love slip through your hands.

- Cheyenne McCray

topic: Hands, Forgiving, Yeah, Not Worth It

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

topic: Giving Up, Forgiving, Repentance, Ready To Give Up

Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.

- Choa Kok Sui

topic: Soul, Forgiving, Heal, Therapeutic

No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.

- Chris Murphy

topic: Evil, Forgiving, Needs

It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.

- Christian D. Larson

topic: Life Changing, Forgiving, Reason

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

- Claudia Black

source: Claudia Black (2009). “Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment, and Fear”, p.1, Hazelden Publishing

topic: Forgiveness, Letting Go, Forgiving

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

- Confucius

topic: Forgiveness, Letting Go, Forgiving, Forgive Yourself

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

- Connie Willis

topic: Long, Forgiving, Care, Paperwork, Filled Out

Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed.

- Countee Cullen

topic: Forgive Me, Forgiving, Needs, Lord Forgive Me

Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free.

- Craig Groeschel

topic: Hurt, Roots, Forgiving

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

- Curtis Sittenfeld

topic: Mistake, Forgiving, Forgive Yourself, Can't Forgive

Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.

- D. Patrick Miller

source: D. Patrick Miller (2017). “The Forgiveness Book: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve”, p.41, Hampton Roads Publishing

topic: Forgiving, Energy, World, Forgive Yourself

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. The price you must pay for your own liberation through another's sacrifice is that you in turn must be willing to liberate in the same way, irrespective of the consequences to yourself.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Sacrifice, Forgiving, Causality

Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Forgiveness, Adversity, Forgiving, Selflessness, Provocation

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

- Dalida

topic: Forgive Me, Forgiving, Unbearable

We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.

- Dallin H. Oaks

topic: Judging, Forgiving, Finals

We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves.

- Darren Johnson

topic: Voice, Forgiving, Faces, Deep Inside

For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides us little evidence of anything other than a regal, relentless, and miraculous enmity; sin he forgives, suffering he heals, evil he casts out, and death he conquers. And absolutely nowhere does Christ act as if any of these things are part of the eternal work or purposes of God.

- David Bentley Hart

topic: Evil, Suffering, Forgiving, Purpose Of God

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

- David Eddings

topic: Hate, Forgiving, Rising, How To Forgive

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

- David Mitchell

topic: Forgive Me, Forgiving, Flaunting

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

- David Rakoff

topic: Generosity, Forgiving

Forgiving is...recognizing the injury, owning the pain, & reaching out...

- David W Augsburger

topic: Pain, Forgiving, Injury

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

- Deb Caletti

topic: Forgiveness, Forgiving, Want

Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning.

- Debbie Ford

topic: Waiting, Forgiving, Purpose, Greater Purpose

Life is all about Living, Forgiving and Loving!.

- Deborah Roberts

topic: Forgiving, Life Is

Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Forgiving, Let It Go, Persons

Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: People, Forgiving, Levels

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Freedom, Inspire, Forgiving

Youre supposed to remember, and still forgive.

- Delta Burke

topic: Forgiving, Remember, Stills

We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Forgiving

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Mean, Forgiving, Doe, Forgiving People

Be kind to everyone; forgive everyone everything.

- Dharma Mittra

topic: Yoga, Forgiving, Be Kind

I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the best parts. It didn't matter that he couldn't love me, that had nothing to do with it. But if I couldn't forgive him, then I could not love him, and that part of me was gone. And I found eventually that I wanted it back." ({Lord John, Drums of Autumn}

- Diana Gabaldon

topic: Autumn, Long, Forgiving, Loving Him

I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again." "As for my pleasure..." His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it." He crooked a finger at me. "Come here.

- Diana Gabaldon

topic: Forgive Me, Forgiving, Afternoon, Outlander

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

- Diane Frolov

topic: Kids, Tree, Forgiving

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Heaven, Forgiving, Common

Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Mirrors, People, Forgiving

We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It's much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons.

- Dillon Burroughs

topic: Revenge, Forgiving, Calling

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

- Ding Ling

topic: Forgiveness, Forgive Me, Forgiving

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

- Dolores Huerta

topic: Forgiveness, Forgiving, Forgiven, How To Forgive, Christian Forgiveness

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

- Don Young

topic: Choices, Forgiving, Gods Will

Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

- Donna Ball

topic: Motherhood, Choices, Forgiving, Joys Of Motherhood, Being A Mother

Forgive yourself for what you think you've done or not done. At every moment, you had your reasons for all of your actions and decisions. You've always done the best that you could do. Forgive yourself.

- Doreen Virtue

topic: Thinking, Decision, Forgiving, Forgive Yourself

You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!

- Doreen Virtue

topic: Uplifting, Healing, Forgiving

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Family, People, Forgiving

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

- Douglas Kennedy

source: Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

topic: Parent, Forgiving, Adults

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

- Douglas Wilder

topic: Forgiving, Black, Way

Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

- E. Lockhart

topic: Cutting, People, Forgiving

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Forgiveness, People, Forgiving

Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Past, Forgiving, Important

Forgive yourself for not being at peace.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Forgiving, Forgive Yourself, Being At Peace

We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls.

- Ed Dobson

topic: Healing, Soul, Forgiving, Asking For Forgiveness

Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

- Edgar Degas

topic: Hate, Forgive Me, Forgiving, Never Forgive, Coquetry

When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.

- Edward Hallowell

source: Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. (2010). “Dare to Forgive”, p.20, Health Communications, Inc.

topic: Forgiveness, Forgiving, Slave

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

topic: Forgiving, Enemy, Forget

You can spill drinks on me, even spit on me. I'll just laugh about it. But If you dare to hurt my friends... I WON'T FORGIVE YOU!

- Eiichiro Oda

topic: Hurt, Laughing, Forgiving

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

- Eknath Easwaran

topic: Passion, Forgiving, Unshakable, Sophistication

Hopefully America will forgive me.

- Elana Meyers

source: "Roundup At The Rink And On The Bobsled Track". "All Things Considered" with Robert Smith, Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 19, 2014.

topic: America, Forgive Me, Forgiving

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Forgiveness, Forgiving

No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either â€“ although this actual person is abominably good-looking â€“ it does not depend upon intelligence or character or â€“ anything â€“ as you say, it is just it.

- Elinor Glyn

source: The Man and the Moment ch. 7 (1914)

topic: Character, Forgiving, Doe

I have a lot of trouble forgiving myself for being so dumb... But yes, of course, the big generous compassionate view that you should take of yourself and of all events is: what a glorious circus train this has been, and what a wonderful messy parade, and all of those steps took me here, where I precisely need to be now, so God bless it.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Views, Dumb, Forgiving

First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

- Elizabeth Lesser

topic: Forgiving, Firsts

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

- Elizabeth Smart

topic: Past, Forgiving, Looks

I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is too much for me. Forgive me if I don't have all the words. Maybe I can sing it and you'll understand.

- Ella Fitzgerald

topic: Forgive Me, Forgiving, Singing

I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never.

- Emiliano Zapata

topic: Forgiving, Murder, Stealing

Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

- Emily Bronte

topic: Sweet, Maturity, Forgiving

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Friendship, Forgive Me, Forgiving, Lest We Forget, Forget Him

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.

- Emma Thompson

topic: Hurt, Forgiving, May, Masochism, Masochistic

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.

- Eric Jerome Dickey

topic: Compassion, Forgiving, Trying

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Forgiving

I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.

- Ethan Hawke

topic: Circles, Forgiving, Wire, Mics

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

- Eugene Kennedy

topic: Forgiveness, Forgiving, Degrees

I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.

- Eva Longoria

source: "Tony Parker Engaged? Eva Longoria’s NBA Star Ex Calls Axelle Francine ‘Fiance’ On Twitter", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2013.

topic: Believe, Divorce, Forgiving

We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement, . . . by forgiving those who have offended us, . . . by rendering selfless service. . . .

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Humble, Forgiving, Receiving

Forgotten is forgiven.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Forgiveness, Forgiving, Forgotten

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

- Ford Frick

topic: Forgive And Forget, Personality, Forgiving

I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline.

- Forrest Gregg

topic: Believe, Discipline, Forgiving

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

- Frances Hardinge

topic: Hero, Forgiving, Being Human

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

- Francine du Plessix Gray

topic: Parent, Forgiving, Oneself

In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.

- Francis Chan

topic: Reality, Forgiving, And Love, Earning It

Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Forgiveness, Forgiving, Injury

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Forgiving, Bores

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Forgiving, Faults

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

- Francois Truffaut

topic: Forgiving, Bores

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

- Francoise Sagan

topic: People, Forgiving, Unhappiness, Schadenfreude, Hard To Forgive

It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man's life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can't do that because we don't know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one.

- Frank Pittman

topic: Mother, Father, Forgiving, Can't Forgive

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

- Franklin P. Adams

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Forgiveness, Forgiving, Humans, Err Is Human

The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.

- Frederic Reynolds

topic: Forgiveness, Forgiving, Mind, Bad Actions

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

- Frederick Buechner

topic: Sadness, Forgiving, Despair, Unforgivable Sin, Sins Not

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

- Frederick Buechner

topic: Pride, Forgiving, Accepting

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