Top 100 Forgive Them Quotes
#1. To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.
Ernest Kurtz
#2. Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
Simone Weil
#3. Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name.
Anonymous
#4. We love winners, even though they're very rarely particularly likeable people. They're almost always obsessive and selfish and inconsiderate. That doesn't matter. We forgive them. We like them while they're winning.
Fredrik Backman
#5. They broke my baby, Lauren, and made their own. I can't forgive them for that. I can't,
Portia Moore
#6. Ultimately we cannot eliminate enemies through violence - violence only multiplies enemies. The only way to eliminate enemies is to love them, forgive them,
Brian Zahnd
#7. If you have enemies, forgive them. Forgiveness is always the best revenge and unforgettable punishment.
Debasish Mridha
#8. If you love someone enough, you find you can forgive them for just about anything, because living without them is more miserable than any grudge you could hold.
Linda Kage
#9. There are things a person does without any reason, without any second thought, maybe they do not hold grudges for long, maybe they just forgive, and there is something strange about that type of person. I admire them.
Shaikh Ashraf
#10. When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father to forgive His persecutors. What's your response when friends let you down? Forgiveness is the choice that pleases God every time.
Charles Stanley
#11. There are always people who can't forgive an able man for differing from them.
George Eliot
#12. God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
#13. In order to forgive an offender,
we have first to forgive ourselves,
then we can forgive them.
In this way we are not
helpless victims anymore,
we regain our power,
acting from our peaceful place
of power.
Human Angels
#14. We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it - because we need it.
Bree Despain
#15. There were some, naturally, who would understand, and he wrote for them, or for himself. Anyhow, some idealised reader who would accept everything, and forgive.
Damon Galgut
#16. if somebody steals from you, you should forgive them because they might have been in need. If someone speaks behind your back, say nothing because you must be the bigger person. When you fall in love, give all your heart to your beloved and don't ever doubt.
Zahed Haftlang
#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. May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again!
Nikos Kazantzakis
#19. The questions had become: What can we forgive in others? How far do they have to go before we lose faith in them?
Hanif Kureishi
#20. Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal.
Joyce Meyer
#21. the resilience they had both displayed, the same stubborn strength that had lifted them out of bad circumstances. Except in Auma I had also sensed a willingness to put the past behind her, a capacity to somehow forgive, if not necessarily forget.
Barack Obama
#22. We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us.
Charles Stanley
#23. Learn to forgive "HATERS" and people who think less of you. Don't bring yourself down to their level, because you know who you are. Be HUMBLE and shower them with unexpected love.
Henry Johnson Jr
#24. It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Lana Turner
#25. Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's something they don't forgive. And every American carries a gun. If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot.
Okey Ndibe
#26. When people are dead, you can forgive them 'most anything.
Haruki Murakami
#27. You can only forgive yourself for the mistakes you made in the past once you know you'll never make them again.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#28. When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.
Shannon L. Alder
#29. There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.
Francis Alexander Durivage
#30. The best Morning Prayer for endless peace would be, "Today I will forgive everyone for their mistakes. Today I will love everyone without judging them. Today I will be kind to everyone even if they do not deserve it. Today I will be a fountain of peace to create waves of joy around me.
Debasish Mridha
#31. I don't forgive people, but I don't let them bother me either!
Nehali Lalwani
#32. To find true peace, forgive those who fill your mind with hatred and instead show them the path of love.
Debasish Mridha
#33. The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.
John Bevere
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.
Henry B. Eyring
#37. A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#38. It is only because of your love, only your love, that the poor will forgive you the bread you give them.
Richard J. Foster
#39. It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
#40. Children always forgive their mothers. That's the way God's designed them. He gives them two arms, two legs, and a heart that will cry 'mother' until the day it stops beating.
Nadia Hashimi
#41. The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."
Billy Sunday
#42. Nature will forgive those who accept their own mistakes and not blame God for them. When God is not the doer of anything at all, one takes on grave liability by saying that God did it.
Dada Bhagwan
#43. I will never remember anything
I know how to forget and forgive
Life has turned into miracle,now
I know, when I am dead
Nobody would remember me,
they all will forget
I am an immortal soul
I will forgive them, all
Shapeshifting in wind of change.
Santosh Kalwar
#44. 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
#45. And best of all, as the highest portraiture of Jesus, try to forgive your enemies, as He did; and let those sublime words of your Master, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do," always ring in your ears. Forgive, as you hope to be forgiven.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#47. 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
#48. A footman approached bearing a tray of sparkling wine. Lord Sheffield motioned the footman away before he could offer them a glass of champagne. "Forgive me," he murmured in Amelia's ear. "I cannot wait another moment to have you in my arms.
Erica Ridley
#49. Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#50. 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
#51. When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.
Jennifer O'Neill
#52. A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.
Joyce Meyer
#53. I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'
Kevin Leman
#54. Sometimes you have to forget and forgive. Forgive them for hurting you and forget that they exist!
Jeffree Star
#55. If you think that trusting someone - allowing them to help you by performing their own duties honorably - somehow makes you less, then it might be time to reexamine yourself. Start asking why you need to do everything. How can you really be close to someone if you never let them in?" "Forgive
Jodi Meadows
#56. Just deciding to forgive isn't enough because willpower alone won't work - we need divine strength from God. As He gives us the strength, we need to pray for our enemies and bless them. Praying for those who have hurt us is vital to successfully forgiving them.
Joyce Meyer
#57. I had no sympathy for him and still haven't. That old saw about "To understand all is to forgive all" is a lot of tripe. Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.
Robert A. Heinlein
#58. Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
#59. If you punish them, they are your slaves and if you forgive them they are your brothers.
Auliq Ice
#60. People don't give a flying fuck if Uncle Jeffrey really forgives them for missing his last birthday party. They want to know that the world is a place where Uncle Jeffrey can and should forgive them.
Jim Butcher
#62. Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can.
Neil Young
#63. I said he had called them because it was from his mind that we drew them, seeking those who hated him, or at least had reason to. The giant you saw might have mastered the Commonwealth, had Severian not defeated him. The blond woman could not forgive him for bringing her back from death.
Gene Wolfe
#64. Loving someone gives them permission to do things to you because they know you'll forgive them. -Shaye
Gena Showalter
#65. And each one of them has a redemptive message. Blood Bayou's redemptive message is (about forgiveness). Can you forgive somebody? Can you come back (from the hurt)? (Can you find_ your way back from it. Can people change and can you forgive somebody?
Drew Waters
#66. disgraceful, indelible blot on the conscience of England and it would remain there forever. No true Irishman would ever forgive them for that, but the Titanic story
Michael Grant
#67. I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; with them, forgive yourself. There may be hope for me yet.
Anthony Ervin
#69. If you are unable to admit your mistakes, you cannot expect others to forgive them. Be honest and sincere, there is no shame in that.
Shelley K. Wall
#70. If our perfect Lord is gracious enough to take our worst, and ugliest, our most boring, our least successful, and forgive them, burying them in the depths of the sea, then it's high time we give each other a break.
Charles R. Swindoll
#71. People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always.
Mensah Oteh
#72. I would encourage you to make your own investigation of the one whom, as He died, prayed for those who killed Him: 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do.' That is love's ultimate expression.
Gary Chapman
#73. And then the petty jealousy of these small prunes-and-prisms places - if you do anything the people you went to school with can't do some of them will never forgive you.
L.M. Montgomery
#74. He could accept people with failings - even forgive them - but if he glossed over the problems, then they would never change.
Brandon Sanderson
#75. But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.
Kristan Higgins
#76. Sometime, it's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.
Mark Lawrence
#77. You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
John Lewis
#78. Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth.
The Gospel According to Shug
Alice Walker
#79. Don't expect people to always understand you. Instead, learn to understand them. Then Accept , Forgive & Love unconditionally. This is sure way to be Happy.
R.v.m.
#80. 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
#81. We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.
Kathryn Schulz
#82. I respect all the innocent souls because they are kind enough to forgive the selfish people around them.
Saurabh Sharma
#83. The artistic is thus very close to the ethical. If only we could grasp the world from someone else's standpoint, we would have a fuller sense of how and why they act as they do. We would thus be less inclined to reproach them from some loftily external point of view. To understand is to forgive.
Terry Eagleton
#84. Even when you fuck up, even when you fail everyone around you. You have to let them forgive you, and you have to forgive yourself.
Kit Rocha
#85. The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
Veronica Roth
#86. We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Samuel Butler
#87. When you forgive somebody, it's not so much for them as it is for you. You need to be free from that. And you need to rise above that.
Lacey Sturm
#88. the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them." "Is
Veronica Roth
#89. You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.
Jane Austen
#90. When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.
Maya Angelou
#91. Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.
Stephen Richards
#92. You must forgive them, my child. Forgiveness is a part of penitence.
Frederick Forsyth
#93. I pass through this people and keep mine eyes open: they do not forgive me for do not envying their virtues. They bite at me, because I say unto them that for small people, small virtues are necessary - and because it is hard for me to understand that small people are necessary!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#94. Every time I pray, I ask for forgiveness. I'm a sinner. I sin every single day. But I do know that God loves me. I do know that God forgives me. It helps me in my every day life because there's nothing anyone can do to me that I can't forgive them for.
Mark Teixeira
#95. In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#96. Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.
James E. Faust
#97. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
#98. When someone judges you for something you can't help, try to forgive them. They don't understand. And if they keep doing it, knock their fucking teeth in.
Seanan McGuire
#99. You must forgive those who hurt you, even if whatever they did to you is unforgivable in your mind. You will forgive them not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because you don't want to suffer and hurt yourself every time you
Miguel Ruiz
#100. My aversion to them ... springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only enemies to the religion of other men, I should overlook their errors. As they are foes to liberty, I cannot forgive them.
Horace Walpole
