Top 82 Cannot Be Forgiven Quotes
#1. I would like to share with you two simple truths: there is nothing that cannot be forgiven, and there is no one un-deserving of forgiveness.
Desmond Tutu
#2. People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be forgiven. It is not the departure for pleasure that is unacceptable, it is waking up happy.
Michel Foucault
#3. Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.
Jennifer Stone
#4. The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.
Anne Rice
#6. When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .
George Eliot
#7. What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.
Heather Day Gilbert
#8. One sacrifice has to be made: never use harsh or rude language. Foul language you can use; foul language doesn't hurt. Foul language is forgivable (though it is bad). But rude language cannot be forgiven.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#11. The angel told her, An honest man who committed a crime, you have no idea how many honest men have committed crimes, their crimes are countless, and contrary to popular belief these are the only crimes that cannot be forgiven.
Jose Saramago
#12. The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt
#13. I thank thee, Lord, for forgiving me, but I prefer staying in the darkness: forgive me that too." - "No; that cannot be. The one thing that cannot be forgiven is the sin of choosing to be evil, of refusing deliverance. It is impossible to forgive that. It would be to take part in it.
George MacDonald
#14. Parental love is unconditional, and so is God's love. No matter what a child of God has done against Him, or feels he or she has done that cannot be forgiven, God still loves that wondering soul.
David Jeremiah
#15. God's mercy to us is the motivation for showing mercy to others. Remember, you will never be asked to forgive someone else more than God has forgiven you.
Rick Warren
#16. We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp.
Lance Armstrong
#17. Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?
I want to be.
I can.
I believe it.
Veronica Roth
#18. A university student attending lectures on general relativity i the morning and others on quantum mechanics in the afternoon might be forgiven for thinking that his professors are fools, or have neglected to communicate with each other for at least a century.
Carlo Rovelli
#19. Redemption is reliant on being forgiven
R.E. Vance
#20. Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles
Tess Gerritsen
#21. If you don't believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus' sacrifice was not enough.
Jud Wilhite
#23. You could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
Ellen Glasgow
#24. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.
Stephen Richards
#25. If Caribbean writers have one single unifying theme, it is a strong sense of place, and of home. There is also - always, beneath the humour, which is a West Indian characteristic - a sadness: an awareness of a past that can never really be forgotten, or forgiven.
Malcolm Bradbury
#26. Oh, God, give us a longing - not for the sin of this world to be judged - but for the sinners of this world to be forgiven.
Beth Moore
#27. Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.
J.I. Packer
#28. Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.
Billy Graham
#29. The words of Romans 12:18 are important to remember. They instruct us to be at peace with everybody if we are given the chance. People who know how much they have been forgiven are to be willing to forgive everybody who earnestly repents of anything they have done.126
Mark Driscoll
#30. The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#31. Those who kill can never be forgiven, for their victims cannot forgive them. And they go, drenched in guilt, to their graves. [Sylvian]
Karen Maitland
#32. Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin ... though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime
Edwin Louis Cole
#33. Words spoken in haste cannot be taken back. And while they may be forgiven, the memories will linger to warn the heart of future encounters.
Tracie Peterson
#34. The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
Alain De Botton
#35. The past cannot be undone. At best it can be understood so, perhaps, it can also be forgiven.
Barb Malek
#36. He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
George Herbert
#38. Even though my angel has forgiven me and rescued me, who on earth will save him, who cannot be allowed into the light of the sun, who has lost his name, who can only hide himself in the world of darkness?
Mizuki Nomura
#39. We are
debtors who cannot pay, yet we have been released from the threat of debtors' prison. It is an insult to God for us to withhold forgiveness and grace from those who ask us, while claiming to be forgiven and saved by grace ourselves.
R.C. Sproul
#41. There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
Henrik Ibsen
#42. Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.
Sydney J. Harris
#43. I would have easily forgiven his pride, had he not mortified mine
Jane Austen
#44. If we don't forgive, then we can't reap forgiveness . . . the heart and soul of faith is the willingness to forgive and to be forgiven.
Ben Jealous
#45. The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard
#46. That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community
Chuck Palahniuk in interview with TMO
Chuck Palahniuk
#47. The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.
Stephen Richards
#48. I've not forgiven you." I could feel my legs shaking, hear the tears in my voice. "I don't know how long it's going to take me to forgive you, or if I ever will, but I'm so happy that you're here right now.
Myra McEntire
#49. This means that the blood of Jesus also offers us protection from any form of condemnation. When you have a revelation that Jesus' blood has made you righteous and that all your sins are forgiven, you are protected from condemnation from the accuser.
Joseph Prince
#51. There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.
Gail Collins
#52. We have such a law: If you forgive, it means that God has forgiven you; but if you do not forgive your brother, it means that your sin remains with you.
Silouan The Athonite
#53. Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn't; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the blemish will be erased from the permanent record known as your soul.
Ted Michael
#54. She wore her body like a mistake she hoped to one day be forgiven for.
Naomi Jackson
#55. I have never forgiven myself ... that I might have made a mistake.
Al Davis
#57. Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?
Sherry Thomas
#58. Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.
Carl Sandburg
#59. Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
J.C. Ryle
#60. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes." Leo Hathaway
Lisa Kleypas
#61. Pius XII, more than half a century ago, said that the tragedy of our age was that it had lost its sense of sin, the awareness of sin. Today we add further to the tragedy by considering our illness, our sins, to be incurable, things that cannot be healed or forgiven. We
Pope Francis
#62. For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.
Robert Southey
#63. The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.
Stephen Richards
#64. The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.
Graham Joyce
#67. The Bible teaches that faith is the only approach that we have to God. No man has sins forgiven, no man goes to heaven, no man has assurance of peace and happiness, until he has faith in Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#68. If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.
Stephen Richards
#69. The devil's first trick is to get us to say, "I have not sinned." And then his last blow is to make us think, "My sin is too great to be forgiven." But humble faith accepts God's judgment upon itself, and escapes judgment.
A.B. Simpson
#71. I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.
William Barclay
#72. Her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much.
Anonymous
#73. I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.
TobyMac
#74. SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
Ambrose Bierce
#75. Most Christians repent enough to get forgiven, but not enough to see the Kingdom.
Bill Johnson
#76. When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down. I was making cheese on toast when flames escaped from the grill. My father stopped the fire with blind panic and excessive water. I was forgiven, but it put me off cooking for years.
Erin O'Connor
#77. Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don't feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they're stuck right where they started: Guilty.
Geoffrey Wood
#78. Let us bless thee at all times and forget not
how thou hast
forgiven our iniquities,
healed our diseases,
redeemed our lives from destruction,
crowned us with lovingkindness and
tender mercies,
satisfied our mouths with good things,
renewed our youth like the eagle's.
Arthur Bennett
#80. The Church must be a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven, and encouraged to live the good life of the Gospel.
Pope Francis
#81. To ask to be forgiven is in part to acknowledge that the attitude displayed in our actions was such as might properly be resented and in part to repudiate that attitude for the future; and to forgive is to accept the repudiation and to forswear the resentment.
Peter Frederick Strawson
#82. All Christians have their sins forgiven, but in most cases they are not experiencing revival.
Neil T. Anderson
