Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living. — Carl Jung
Without forgiveness, there's no future. — Desmond Tutu
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. — Aleister Crowley
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. — Publilius Syrus
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. — William Hazlitt
Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons. — Joseph Jacobs
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
If you can't forgive and forget, pick one. — Robert Breault
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. — C. S. Lewis
Short Unforgivable Quotes
It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds. — Christian Dior
Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day
hoping that the other person will die. — Debbie Ford
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. — Joe Biden
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. — Rudyard Kipling
Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving! — John Cena
The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses. — Alexander Elder
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving. — David Remnick
Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor. — Faina Ranevskaya
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. — John D. MacDonald
Forgiving The Unforgivable Quotes
Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life. — Watchman Nee
The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate-filled, unforgiving world. God's forgiveness gives us a fresh start. — Ravi Zacharias
When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free. — Bernie Siegel
But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable. — Sue Augustine
I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable. — Kathrine Switzer
The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon. — George Santayana
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
The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable. — Mardy Grothe
the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven. — P. D. James
Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty. — Tennessee Williams
Unforgiving Quotes
There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin." — Fulton J. Sheen
I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. — Bette Davis
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. — Theodore Roosevelt
This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you. — H. Rap Brown
Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable. — Fulton J. Sheen
Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and-most unforgivably-increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault. — Norman Finkelstein
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back. — Alice Hoffman
The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits. — Unknown Author
To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!! Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!) — T. D. Jakes
To fall in love with someone who does not love you back, is the cruelest, most unforgiving heartache I have ever experienced. — KB
Unforgivable Sin Quotes
Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing. — Anthony Burgess
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor. — Jorge Luis Borges
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim. — Graham Greene
The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes. — Neil Kinnock
That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned! — Margaret Mitchell
cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin. — Rae Foley
America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure. — Evelyn Anthony
That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin. — Gene Wolfe
Unforgiveness Quotes
Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills. — Florence Scovel Shinn
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. — Glenn Clark
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain. — T. D. Jakes
I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life. — Ja Rule
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
Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die. — Joyce Meyer
I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way. — Joyce Meyer
The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Your fellowship with God flows freely when you're willing to forgive, but it gets blocked by unforgiveness. — Joyce Meyer
Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him. — Will Davis
Unpardonable Quotes
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. — G. K. Chesterton
What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them. — Bartolome de las Casas
Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death. — Steven Morrissey
The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person. — Galen Starr Ross
All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him. — Saint Basil
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. — Emma Goldman
It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude. — Brigham Young
...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person. — Galen Starr Ross
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. — Thomas Huxley
Hard To Forgive Quotes
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years. — Lillian Smith
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
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
How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness. — Tupac Shakur
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
People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success. — Francoise Sagan
Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.) — Meher Baba
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
The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness. — Howard W. Hunter
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. — Henri Nouwen
No Forgiveness Quotes
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore. — Albert Einstein
If I repent now will God forgive me?
No, but if God forgives you, you will repent. — Rabia Basri
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
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
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. — Oscar Wilde
There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow. — Martin Luther
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
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
Not Forgiving Quotes
Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes. — Ajahn Brahm
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
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
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. — Corrie Ten Boom
Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain. — Celia Cruz
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
Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick. — Gary Smalley
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
Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart. — Trent Shelton
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
We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things. — Charlotte Mason
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. — Henrik Ibsen
Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence. — James Anthony Froude
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. — Tennessee Williams
One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable. — Mahatma Gandhi
To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you. — C. S. Lewis
A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery. — Vladimir Lenin
War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines. — Storm Jameson
Not Forgiven Quotes
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. — Marlene Dietrich
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
See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea - What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me? — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Heaven is not for good people, it's for forgiven people. — Greg Laurie
The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven. — Hasan of Basra
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat. — William P. Young
Eid is not for the one who wears #new clothes. Eid is for the one whose obedience rises. Eid is not for the one with beautiful clothes and fine means of transport, Eid is for the one whose sins are forgiven. — Ibn Rajab
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
Pardonable Quotes
I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France. — Louis XVI of France
Christians, hasten to help your brothers in the East, for they are being attacked. Arm for the rescue of Jerusalem under your captain Christ. Wear his cross as your badge. If you are killed your sins will be pardoned. — Pope Urban II
Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining. — Ibn Taymiyyah
The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass. — Queen Elizabeth II
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. — Francis of Assisi
Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions. — John Bunyan
Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine — Marie Antoinette
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. — Zoroaster
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. — Maxim Gorky
Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol! — Mikhail Bulgakov
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. — Richard Dawkins
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us. — Charles Stanley
I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving. — Lisa Kudrow
When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources. — Buzz Aldrin
What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price. — Peter Drucker
The Christian is not free to do what the Bible forbids. Christian freedom does not entail the right to fornicate or to steal or to lie or to persist in an unforgiving attitude or to do anything else the Scriptures explicitly prohibit. And a person who lovingly points this out to you is not a legalist for having done so! — Sam Storms
As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid. — Will Oldham
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred. — G. S. Hillard
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation. — Graham Greene
The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy. — Bjork
The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform. — Ron Chernow
An unforgiving nature reflects in your face. Holding negative energy drags down the facial muscles, puckers one's frown and causes lines around the mouth. Working daily on forgiveness (forgiving oneself as well as one's enemies) is the cheapest, most effective facelift in the whole wide world. All it requires is love and discipline. — Sarah Miles
Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving. — John Fletcher
Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry. — Sloane Crosley
Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people. — Kelly Osbourne
To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures and is unforgiving of mistakes. — Henry Joy McCracken
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