Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. — Euripides
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience. — Oprah Winfrey
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. — Les Brown
I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how. — Louise Hay
Without forgiveness, there's no future. — Desmond Tutu
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. — Robert Frost
Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too. — Justina Chen
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. — Adlai E. Stevenson
If you can't forgive and forget, pick one. — Robert Breault
And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that! — Friedrich Nietzsche
God forgives man the time spent looking at airplane photos. — Barrett Tillman
Short I Forgive You Quotes
You cannot forget the past but you can forgive it. — Raila Odinga
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. — Robert Frost
Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself — T. D. Jakes
When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too. — Johnny Cash
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. — William Arthur Ward
I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me! — Kendrick Lamar
The teacher found out. The student says: Oh forgive me. — Vietnamese Proverbs
What is forgiven is usually well remembered. — Louis Dudek
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. — Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free. — Stormie Omartian
Top 10 I Forgive You Quotes
If I repent now will God forgive me?
No, but if God forgives you, you will repent. — Rabia Basri
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. — William Arthur Ward
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else. — Mother Teresa
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. — Catherine Ponder
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here. — Seamus Heaney
Anything worth having is hard to keep,
I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet.
So, let's stick it out so we never regret it,
I could forgive the past-but I never forget it. — Ghostface Killah
Saying 'I love you' does not mean that you love me. Completely embracing me and forgiving me and being in the moment with me, that's love. — Duncan Trussell
10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise. — Will Smith
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. — Robert Muller
We're all entitled to make mistakes. I'm not one of these guys where if you make a mistake, I'm gonna try to tear your life down and burn it to the ground. — Dana White
I Forgive You Image Quotes
One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness. — Stormie Omartian
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
How Can I Forgive You Quotes
And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself? — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I? — Emily Bronte
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble? — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it. — Ray Bradbury
I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it. — Orson Welles
Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.
How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe. — Johnny Weissmuller
Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love. — Richard Paul Evans
If I Forgive You Quotes
You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish. — Oscar Romero
I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness. — Louis Zamperini
I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads. — Willie Nelson
Forgiving someone is easy, it's trusting them again that's hard.
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. — H. L. Mencken
The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive. — Demi Moore
I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter
but my will gets weak
and my thoughts seem to scatter
but I think it's about forgiveness...
forgiveness,
even if you don't love me anymore. — Don Henley
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
I think maybe my greatest weakness is that I trust people too much. I'm too trusting. And when they let me down, if they let me down, I never forgive. I find it very, very hard to forgive people that deceived me. So I don't know if you would call that a weakness, but my wife said "let up." — Donald Trump
Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more. — Christopher Paolini
I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement. — Faith Baldwin
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
You Are Forgiven Quotes
Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating. — Richard Rohr
Do not put off any longer confessing all your sins, for death will soon come. Give and it will be given you; forgive and you will be forgiven. . . Blessed are they who die repentant, for they shall go to the Kingdom of Heaven! — Francis of Assisi
How do you know if Allah has forgiven you? When someone sincerely asks for forgiveness, then there is no doubt they are forgiven. It is guaranteed. Never doubt if Allah forgave you. First of all be sincere and genuine, and if you meet that condition then there is no doubt. — Nouman Ali Khan
Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.
It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world is yours and you're the answer to the Wright brothers' prayers. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong ... all my trespasses are forgiven. Best you not believe it. — Ernest K. Gann
If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future. — Matt Chandler
I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian. — Christopher Hitchens
Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.
You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone. — John Green
Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge! — Eugene H. Peterson
All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money. — RuPaul
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. — Albert Camus
Forgive Me Quotes
Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me. — Corrie Ten Boom
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? — Bell Hooks
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. — Booker T. Washington
When you forgive, you don't change the past... You change the future!
A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated. — Fulton J. Sheen
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
It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God. — Alistair Begg
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them. — Saint John Chrysostom
Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior. — John Newton
Before you judge someone else, stop and think about all that God has forgiven you for. — Joyce Meyer
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' — Billy Graham
I Am Forgiven Quotes
I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home. — Gerard Way
If the cross shows me that I am far worse than I had ever imagined, it also shows me that my evil has been absorbed and forgiven. If the worst thing any human can do is kill God's son, and that can be forgiven, then how can anything else not be forgiven? — Rebecca Pippert
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. — E. W. Howe
Forgive those who hurt you, but never forget what it taught you.
To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance. — Lawrence Fagg
I am not fully forgiven until I allow God to write his new dream for my life on the blackboard of my mind. .. God has a great plan to redeem society. He needs me and wants to use me. — Robert H. Schuller
I don't know of anybody including me that has not made errors in judgment, that hasn't done things I shouldn't do, that hasn't lied, that hasn't done things I am not proud of but I hope I am forgiven. — John Assaraf
Weak people revenge, strong people forgive, intelligent people ignore.
As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past. — Bill Johnson
My abortion was so long ago I didn't think I needed help. I hoped God had forgiven me but I hadn't realized I didn't forgive myself. After attending this safe, nurturing group I know that I am forgiven and set free. — Barbara
I'm washed, I'm forgiven, I'm whole, and I'm healed. I'm cleansed and I'm glory bound. I am only a sojourner on the earth. — Myles Munroe
You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. — Cheryl Strayed
When You Forgive Quotes
The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does, even if you murdered or robbed, ya it's wrong, but God loves, take one step toward him he'll take two toward you, even when all else fails, God'll support you — Nas
God always forgives when you are totally repentant and you desire to change. He forgives... and He never gets tired of forgiving. Never. You may get tired asking. I hope not. He never, never tires of forgiving. Never. — Mother Angelica
The sun will stand as your best man
And whistle
When you have found the courage
To marry forgiveness
When you have found the courage
to marry
Love. — Hafez
Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living. — Malcolm X
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. — Lewis B. Smedes
His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got saved, and after that point, you have to depend on your confession of sins to be forgiven. God's forgiveness is not given in installments. — Joseph Prince
When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth. — Rob Bell
That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you'll be free. — Louise Hay
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. — Gerald Jampolsky
Always Forgive Quotes
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. — Oscar Wilde
Your subconscious never sleeps. It is always on the job. It controls all your vital functions.
Forgive yourself and every one else before you go to sleep, and healing will take place much
more rapidly. — Joseph Murphy
The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm not a spiteful man, never been. I always forgive. The final decision isn't mine, but God's. God knows what He does. — Neymar
When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin. — Louise Bourgeois
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. — Oscar Wilde
Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. — Brian Weiss
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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. — Marianne Williamson
Dear Lord, forgive me for all of the times I've compared myself to others. I know that You have hand-picked all of my qualities. Help me to see these things as beautiful reminders of Your great love in creating me as Your daughter. In Jesus' Name, Amen. — Lysa TerKeurst
I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night. — Mark Wahlberg
To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.] — Lupe Velez
I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness for all whom I know for every harm I may have unwittingly caused them...Adieu, good, gentle sister...I embrace you with all my heart as well as the poor, dear children. — Marie Antoinette
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore. — Bob Dylan
One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings. — Maynard James Keenan
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. — Suzanne Somers
Understand two thoughts, and fear them. One says, "You are a saint," the other, "You won't be saved." Both of these thoughts are from the enemy, and there is no truth in them. But think this way: I am a great sinner, but the Lord is merciful. He loves people very much, and He will forgive my sins. — Silouan the Athonite
I've learned.... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you... More — Andy Rooney
I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life. — John Wilmot
Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace. — Leo Tolstoy
I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in the gardens in which the rivers flow, thank you for all your blessings and all of your miracles. — Lupe Fiasco
What is your real work? Is it that which pays the bills or is it your art? I think your real work is healing. Whatever helps you become more loving in this lifetime. Whatever helps you forgive yourself, embrace yourself, meet yourself, and free yourself in this lifetime. — Tama J. Kieves
Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams. — Anna Akhmatova
Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever. — Hannah Arendt
I think when somebody seeks mercy and forgiveness and means it, and I was with [Donald Trump] the entire time, including when he learned about this, people ought to think about that. They ought to think about when somebody asks you for forgiveness contrite and for mercy - are you willing to give it? — Kellyanne Conway
I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all? — Elizabeth Bishop
Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you. — Louisa May Alcott
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' -- People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say. — Eliphas Levi
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. — Robert Kennedy
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. — Cherie Carter-Scott
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