Top 100 For Forgiveness Quotes
#1. I glimpsed the contour of a wide river, its surface glittering white. Dead trees haunted its edges, their limbs stretching skywards, as if begging for forgiveness
Christine Piper
#2. They're weak and strong and they make mistakes, like anyone, like he has. And love and care have all kinds of different faces, and within them, there's room for understanding, and for forgiveness, and for more. More and more and more. Sometimes
Patrick Ness
#3. Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.
Billy Graham
#4. If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
Josh McDowell
#5. If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ...
It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.
Corrie Ten Boom
#6. Jesus is my role model and He is whom I try to follow. Everything I do, I know I'm representing Him. Does it mean I do it well all the time? No. But I do ask for forgiveness for the times I bring Him a bad name.
Matt Diaz
#7. When Allah grants us the sense to ask Him for forgiveness, then He has granted us a huge favor. It's a sign that He wants to forgive us.
Nouman Ali Khan
#8. It is better to ask for forgiveness then permission.
Tucker Max
#9. The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a man's quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness.
Benjamin Percy
#10. I can't be forgiven so I am not asking you for forgiveness. We lost each other, and we will never find each other again.
Antonia Michaelis
#11. I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place.
Tyson Fury
#12. You cannot ask for forgiveness without acknowledging that there is something in life that is more important than the progress of your own kingdom.
Paul David Tripp
#13. Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Billy Graham
#14. Nothing about this scene is right, but at this point, I'm so full of wrong, I'll do whatever they want and ask myself for forgiveness later. I'm driving the bus to hell anyway. May as well take a little vacation while I'm in town.
Kendall Grey
#15. I won't ask for forgiveness, but I am so very sorry," he said, with the simple brevity she was learning to expect. She pressed her lips into his soft, dark hair. "I know." He
Renee Ahdieh
#16. Under the law of the kingdom, for example, no one may hope for forgiveness who has not first forgiven. Mt 6:12,14,15
Anonymous
#18. It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?
Kate Brian
#19. He's a guy. We're easy and stupid. Just go bat your eyes at him and beg for forgiveness. It'll take five minutes ... three if you wear something low-cut.
Elle Lothlorien
#20. Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.
Robert A. Heinlein
#21. The act of extending forgiveness and asking for forgiveness must come from our heart.
Sara Dormon
#22. I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.
Anne Lamott
#23. My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. You shouldn't ask for forgiveness.
Because if you ask someone to forgive you, and they do, then that's twice that you've taken something from them. First the betrayal, and then the absolution.
Meg Howrey
#26. True greatness and true power is faithful all the way down, including humbly quick to admit limitedness, sin and brokenness, and to ask for forgiveness.
Andy Crouch
#27. If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
Keira Knightley
#28. Prayer is a way of asking for something. It is the medium of miracles. But the only meaningful prayer is for forgiveness, because those who have been forgiven have everything.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#29. The one whose 'alochana (confession of mistakes), pratikraman (asking for forgiveness) and pratyakhyan (avowal to never repeat the mistake)' are true (done correctly), he is bound to attain the knowledge of the Self (attain self realization).
Dada Bhagwan
#30. I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.
Sherri Shepherd
#31. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission.
Rebecca Stead
#32. Once you wrong a woman, beware. They'll skin you alive. Might cry over your pain, nurse you back to health after, but they'll take you to the cleaners as sure as I'm standing here. You should have begged for forgiveness for being born before you showed up unannounced.
K.F. Breene
#33. Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.
Shannon L. Alder
#34. I still couldn't believe Melanie was here. It was all I could do to keep myself from jumping over the table to get to her, to fall to my knees, to plead for forgiveness, to beg her to take me back.
A.L. Jackson
#35. My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.
Sherman Alexie
#36. The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.
Pope Francis
#37. You know the incredible thing about hearts is their unbelievable capacity for forgiveness. You'd be amazed what people will overlook when they love someone. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#38. I'm Catholic. I don't pray, I just ask for forgiveness after.
Abigail Roux
#39. There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.
Emily Giffin
#40. We go to Christ for forgiveness, and then too often look to the law for power to fight our sins.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#41. Is it atikraman [Hurtful karma] if we eat, cut our hair or brush our teeth? No, it is not like that. Anger-pride-deceit-greed is considered atikraman [Hurtful karma]. If you do pratikraman [Ask for forgiveness], they will all go away.
Dada Bhagwan
#42. Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.
Pope Francis
#43. Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.
Norman Vincent Peale
#44. It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Grace Hopper
#45. It's good to learn early that every show is a family
complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness ...
Kristin Chenoweth
#46. Taking responsibility for your circumstances. Take responsibility. Be strong enough to admit your wrongs, ask for forgiveness, and think of constructive solutions to solve your problems.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#47. Don't be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.
Pope Francis
#48. genuinely righteous people invariably become more aware of their personal guilt and need for forgiveness than those who have become so foul and hard they cannot detect their own shame.
D. A. Carson
#49. God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
Richard Rohr
#50. 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
#51. forgive myself; and ask them for forgiveness. More important, I had to see the best in them, no matter what they chose for themselves.
Iyanla Vanzant
#52. Softly he continued, "You need to ask God for forgiveness. That's His job, isn't it? To forgive imperfect humankind. You are quick to forgive others and offer them kindness. Do the same for yourself.
Mary Jo Putney
#53. The Lord never gets tired of forgiving. "Never," Francis said. "We are the ones who get tired of asking him for forgiveness.
John L. Allen Jr.
#54. Guilt is not all bad. Without it there is nothing to drive a person toward self-examination and toward God for forgiveness.
Billy Graham
#55. Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness,
Pope Francis
#56. Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.
John Grisham
#57. We are all human, so we may trespass each other. But there is always grace for forgiveness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#58. I hated myself, and the part of me that was cowardly wished for a simple solution: an exchange of pain for forgiveness. But life didn't work that way, and fucking up was forever.
Alexis Hall
#59. People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust.
Newt Gingrich
#60. My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
Janine Turner
#61. I wonder if the priest knows that while he's up here charging for forgiveness, Mary's back there handing it out for free.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#62. But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.
Craig Groeschel
#63. Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said "Thou shalt not," now I find peace with a sister god who takes my open hands in hers and says, "You will.
Betsy Cornwell
#64. Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.
Saint John Chrysostom
#65. You don't ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it.
Leigh Bardugo
#66. There can only be a need for forgiveness when first there is blame.
And there can only be blame, when first there is misunderstanding.
Mike Dooley
#67. But an apology too - you think you're giving something, but you're not. You're really asking for something. You're asking for forgiveness, you're asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.
Deb Caletti
#68. I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!
Susan Smith
#69. I prayed to Woden for forgiveness, but I think he felt no ill will for me. We are but men. He has done worse.
Alaric Longward
#70. The key was stealthily leveraging and launching, then asking for forgiveness,
Jacquie McNish
#72. Something has to die for forgiveness to take place. (Maya Angelou or Brene Brown)
Kit Crumpton
#73. As the comedian Emo Phillips once said, "When I was a child, I used to pray to God for a bicycle. But then I realized that God doesn't work in that way - so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness!
Daniel C. Dennett
#74. You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there's a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them."
"And there's a lot to be said for knocking enemies upside their heads and cracking skulls open."
Ash & Urian
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#75. The Church Fathers teach us that a shattered heart is the most pleasing gift to God. It is the sign that we are conscious of our sins, of the evil we have done, of our wretchedness, and of our need for forgiveness and mercy.
Pope Francis
#76. I don't know if I'm ready,' Poppy protested. 'Why must I do it so soon? There's no time limit for forgiveness, is there?'
'Sometimes there is.
Lisa Kleypas
#77. Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness.
Henry B. Eyring
#78. To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#79. My mother hasn't been speaking to me. She wanted me to forgive Neil, which was fine. There was room in my heart for forgiveness; there wasn't room in my life for someone who constantly needed it.
Tarryn Fisher
#80. 110Yet anyone who does evil or wrongs his own soul and then asks God for forgiveness will find Him most forgiving and merciful.
Anonymous
#81. I will not ask you for forgiveness. What I have done is unforgivable. I was so lost in hatred and revenge. I never dreamed that I could love you so much. You stole what was left of my heart. And now I've lost you forever.
Elizabeth Rudnick
#82. you said you were going to kill rukia with your own hands...you make me sick...show me your bankai and I will crush it...I will make me beg for forgiveness on you knees...I will never let you say those words to Rukia again...
~Ichigo Kurosaki
Tite Kubo
#83. Pray to Him for forgiveness and, by faith, receive Jesus Christ into your life. Then you will have assurance that your name has been written in the Book of Life which God Himself will open and read someday. Nothing will bring us greater joy than hearing the Savior call our names.
Billy Graham
#84. For forgiveness to work in your life, it has to be genuine. It has to come from the heart. When it does, it is so powerful that bitterness fades away and you are able to see the "gifts" in what has happened. I also think forgiveness is a kind of humility." -Winsome Campbell-Green
Winsome Campbell-Green
#85. Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.
Andy Stanley
#86. They lie, you know. It's not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little.
Michelle Hodkin
#87. For the gifts I have given Man, I have never desired admiration. But I hope for forgiveness. -Atlas Journal Excerpt, 2023 A.D.
Craig Gehring
#88. I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
Emo Philips
#89. You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none
Alison Weir
#90. Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.
Paulo Coelho
#91. Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness.
Bobbi Brown
#92. just need to pray." "You don't believe in God." "Sometimes I do." "What are you praying for?" Nothing can be done. Please don't make me hope. "For forgiveness." I
Anyta Sunday
#94. Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.
Michele Bachmann
#95. When I was seventeen I went to college to escape my father's impotent rage and my mother's infinite capacity for forgiveness.
Christina Baker Kline
#96. I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.
Daphne Du Maurier
#97. It's awkward how some people refuse to be humans regarding their behaviours! Isn't that against God's will for he created them as humans? And yet, they at night hold hands up and ask God for forgiveness and to grant them their wishes; when he created animals sinless.
Mustafa SULTAN
#98. Ask God for forgiveness, and leave your regrets in the past!
Rihanna
#100. I also enjoyed praying at night for forgiveness, secure in the knowledge I'd not really done anything in need of forgiving.
Melanie Benjamin
