Forgiving famous quotes
05-20-2025
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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 Bailon -
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 -
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 Paton -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 Munro -
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 -
I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.
-- Alveda King -
The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.
-- Alyson Noel -
... the Lord Jesus said, 'To those who are in bonds, Come out, and to those who are in prison, Go forth' (Isa. 49:9); so your sins are forgiven. All, then, are forgiven, nor is there any one whom He has not loosed. For thus it is written, that He has forgiven 'all transgressions, doing away with the handwriting of the ordinance that was against us' (Col. 2:13-14). Why, then, do we hold the bonds of others, while we enjoy our own remission? He, who forgave all, required of all that what every one remembers to have been forgiven to himself, he also should forgive others.
-- Ambrose -
When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael -
I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
-- Amy Tan -
It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
-- Anais Nin -
Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.
-- Andrew Murray -
We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive . . . by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That's why a person has to decide to forgive first. Our feelings always follow along behind our decisions.
-- Andy Andrews -
It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present
-- Andy Andrews -
We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
-- Ann Brashares -
There is nothing at all that God won't forgive
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
I’ve been enjoying a couple of post-Oscar burgers. So I didn’t fit into a lot of the vintage stuff. I wanted to wear something that was a little bit more forgiving.
-- Anne Hathaway -
Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.
-- Anne Lamott -
My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.
-- Anne Lamott -
The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
if we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us ...
-- Antoinette Bosco -
I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.
-- Anton Yelchin -
To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
-- Ava Gardner -
An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
-- Ayn Rand -
I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away.
-- Ayumi Hamasaki -
If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
-- Barbara Johnson -
Trust that whatever you are dealing with, whatever doorway to crisis you experience, it is leading you to a greater lesson in liwing where ideally the power of love is what you learn. Forgive, and broadcast your excitement to be alive.
-- Barbara Marciniak -
God forgives man the time spent looking at airplane photos.
-- Barrett Tillman -
Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?
-- Barry Lopez -
This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.
-- Barry Lyga -
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
-- Ben Kingsley -
It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.
-- Benjamin Hoadly -
When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
-- Bernie Siegel -
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.
-- Berton Averre -
If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself.
-- Bill Hader -
In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness
-- Bill Moyers -
Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.
-- Billy Corgan -
Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.
-- Billy Graham -
When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.
-- Billy Graham -
As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.
-- Billy Graham -
As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.
-- Bohumil Hrabal -
We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.
-- Bree Despain -
God is the ultimate judge of what is truly in our souls. But we are requiered to forgive everyone.
-- Bree Despain -
The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.
-- Brennan Manning -
Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.
-- Brennan Manning -
Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You understand that Christ died in your place on the cross, paying for your sins, fully forgiving you for all your wrongs. You are cleansed from guilt, and you are becoming a cleaner, healthier, more whole person.
-- Brian D. McLaren -
They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.
-- Bryan Adams -
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
Horses are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we're not capable of filling ourselves.
-- Buck Brannaman -
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
-- C. S. Lewis -
We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
-- C. S. Lewis -
There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Through His Atonement, He heals not only the transgressor, but He also heals the innocent who suffer because of those transgressions. As the innocent exercise faith in the Savior and in His Atonement and forgive the transgressor, they too can be healed.
-- C. Scott Grow -
Ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.
-- C. Scott Grow -
I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.
-- C.P. Snow -
Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
-- Camryn Manheim -
It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.
-- Caroline Llewellyn -
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 -
Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events.
-- Caroline Myss -
To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.
-- Carter Heyward -
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
-- Catherine Ponder -
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
-- Catherine the Great -
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
-- Catherine the Great -
...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.
-- Cecily von Ziegesar
