Able To Forgive Quotes

#1. Sometimes being strong means being able to forgive.

Me

#2. The love of Christ fills our hearts and makes us always able to forgive!

Pope Francis

#3. The more fragile the animal, the more it needs to protect itself. So the more venom a creature has, the more we should be able to forgive that animal. They're the ones that need it most. And, really, what is more fragile than a jellyfish, which doesn't even have any bones?

Ali Benjamin

#4. I couldn't leave you alone with them. I'm your Guardian and I swore to protect you, no matter what." And if anything had happened to you I'd never be able to forgive myself. You're already too important to me, and it scares me.

Brittany DeLys

#5. Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

Ding Ling

#6. I would like to remember all and be able to forgive everything - in due course!

Johanna Siguroardottir

#7. If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

Bill Hader

#8. Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

Maya Angelou

#9. That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton ... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance

James Augustus St. John

#11. The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.

Stephen Richards

#12. In order to love others, we have to love ourselves deeply enough, to be able to forgive ourselves and become responsible, with self respect and dignity. This self love is Divine Love, for oneself and for all.

Gian Kumar

#13. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

Jodi Picoult

#14. You can never take away the memories I have of us; I will hold those deep inside. And someday, when my heart heals, I may even be able to forgive you. But I just don't have it in me for second chances. I've done those before and they always turn into three or four. It never ends.

Courtney Giardina

#15. Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past. You won't be able to forgive yourself for not doing things differently until you stop wishing things were different

Zoe York

#16. You could've left me there and ran, like I said. But instead you came back and you helped me. You didn't have to."
"I ... I couldn't leave you there." I averted my gaze. "It wouldn't have been right. And I would've never been able to forgive myself.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#17. Much to my surprise, as I set them free, I was able to forgive myself for the judgments I had made about them. I now hold them in a loving space in my heart and honor them as my ancestors who love me and guide me each day.

Iyanla Vanzant

#18. Can you forgive her? Can you do that?
There was no response.
Because if you can start to forgive, then it will become easier.
And?
And then you will be able to forgive yourself - and ask others to forgive you.

Alexander McCall Smith

#19. The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

Mignon McLaughlin

#20. It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.

Steven Spielberg

#21. Then maybe Roman will be able to forgive me."
"I believe he will." Father Andrew glanced at Connor. "Can you forgive yourself?

Kerrelyn Sparks

#22. A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace.

Leo Hindery

#23. He'd wondered for so many years if he'd ever be able to forgive his father. Maybe he'd just used the wrong word. Surrender. Acceptance. Those seemed better.

Jeffrey Small

#24. She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them.

Veronica Roth

#25. -After all this pain and heartache, how are you now able to forgive? You seem so at peace with yourself and your life. How are you so able to move on? ...
-Because Mr. Mandela asked us to.

Wes Moore

#26. The same way you forgave yourself all those other times you made her miserable, Novak. You ask for her forgiveness and when you find that she loves you enough to see past what you've done, that's when you'll be able to forgive yourself.

Bella Forrest

#27. After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

Oscar Wilde

#28. I scratch at my forehead, my nervous habit when someone is really seeing me. "Well, I couldn't just walk away. I'd never be able to forgive myself if I did.

Jessica Sorensen

#29. the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them." "Is

Veronica Roth

#30. Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

Desmond Tutu

#31. Once I could see Mom for who she was, and not the mother she had failed to be, I'd be able to forgive her. She was her own person, not just my mother, and it was this person I was forging a relationship with.

Rachel Sontag

#32. She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.

Chris Bohjalian

#33. People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on.

Ming-Na Wen

#34. Here's a thing I've noticed: the greatest leaders, the ones who impact the world the most, are somehow able to turn the other cheek. It's as though they believe so solidly in love, so robustly in forgiveness, they have the ability to forgive and even love those who attack them.

Donald Miller

#35. There are no secrets to a charmed life. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's. Astounded

Susan Meissner

#36. Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself, to be at peace, to be happy and to be able to sleep at night. You don't forgive because you are weak but because you are strong enough to realize that only by giving up on resentment will you be happy.

Luminita D. Saviuc

#37. Then Joshua warned the people, You are not able to serve the LORD, for he is a holy and jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins.

Anonymous

#38. 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

#39. I no longer fear the pain...I fear no release from this torture...knowing that I've hurt him and he can't forgive me...that he won't be able to make me his good girl again.

Willow Madison

#40. Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

Mitch Albom

#41. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's.

Susan Meissner

#42. I reached a healthy place in which I was able to stop projecting my needs on another human being. We both came to understand that each of us is limited in our capacity to be for another what is needed, and learned to forgive each other for not being God.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#43. Forgiveness isn't for the person making the error. It's for the person wronged. It's so you can move on without the pain, anguish, resentment. You need to forgive and mean it. Only then will you be able to move on.

Leddy Harper

#44. I would ask him to forgive me, for being his mother and never knowing what was going on inside his head, for not being able to help him, for not being the person that he could confide in." When

Sue Klebold

#45. We will not be able to find peace if our minds are burning with the fires of resentment. Let us forgive and forget to create peace.

Debasish Mridha

#46. A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go.

Anthony Liccione

#47. Don't drag anchors of unforgiveness into your relationships. Forgive who you need to forgive. Reach out to someone who may be able to help you work this through. Don't drag around those things that "encumber" you.

Lee Ezell

#48. Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.

Masashi Kishimoto

#49. I've always believed that you must be able to appreciate the things that people can give you, and forgive them for the things they can't.

Elizabeth Isaacs

#50. The same zeal and guts with which you were persistent not to forgive is the same zeal and enthusiasm with which you should be able to open up a new relationship with your partner, loved one or friend, one that is founded on commitment and dedication.

Stephen Richards

#51. I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.

Madeleine Thien

#52. A man ought to be able to be carried away by his feelings, he ought to be able to be mad, to make mistakes, to suffer! A woman will forgive you audacity and insolence, but she will never forgive your reasonableness!

Anton Chekhov

#53. When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

Dalai Lama XIV

#54. The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

Philip Sidney

#55. When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.

Marci Shimoff

#56. I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.

Boris Yeltsin

#57. Forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do,
the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail

Masashi Kishimoto

#58. 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

#59. People hated and killed each other back then. Now even those who survived are dying, leaving this world one by one. Unless we find a way to forgive one another, none of us will ever be able to see each other again. (2007: 88)

Hwang Sok-yong

#60. Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.

Samuel R. Delany

#61. When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Gerald Jampolsky

#62. I've always thought that it might be fun to be Catholic, to be able to go to the confessional and unburden yourself and have someone tell you that they forgive you, to take all the sin away, wipe the slate clean.

Paula Hawkins

#63. I've decided that there isn't much difference in the way we treat our siblings and the way we treat our special someones. But at the end of it all we know our siblings have to forgive us ... or they'll never be able to borrow our car.

Emma Daley

#64. Madame will forgive me for not perceiving her busyness. It is a sign of the highest breeding to be able to be busy whilst appearing idle to the uninformed observer.

Louis De Bernieres

#65. To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

John Tillotson

#66. What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense. You will be able to smile at how you overcome the tears of pain.

Stephen Richards

#67. A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky