Top 100 Forgive Them Quotes
#1. Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
Simone Weil
#2. 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
#3. They broke my baby, Lauren, and made their own. I can't forgive them for that. I can't,
Portia Moore
#4. 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
#5. If you have enemies, forgive them. Forgiveness is always the best revenge and unforgettable punishment.
Debasish Mridha
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it - because we need it.
Bree Despain
#9. 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
#10. When people are dead, you can forgive them 'most anything.
Haruki Murakami
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Sometimes you have to forget and forgive. Forgive them for hurting you and forget that they exist!
Jeffree Star
#19. Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
#20. If you punish them, they are your slaves and if you forgive them they are your brothers.
Auliq Ice
#21. 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
#22. Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can.
Neil Young
#23. Loving someone gives them permission to do things to you because they know you'll forgive them. -Shaye
Gena Showalter
#24. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always.
Mensah Oteh
#29. 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
#30. He could accept people with failings - even forgive them - but if he glossed over the problems, then they would never change.
Brandon Sanderson
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
Veronica Roth
#34. 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
#35. the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them." "Is
Veronica Roth
#36. 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
#37. You must forgive them, my child. Forgiveness is a part of penitence.
Frederick Forsyth
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Even when someone hurts you, find the strength to forgive them, understand them, and let it go.
Michael Unks
#45. If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.
Robert Muller
#46. When we do something wrong we want people to forgive us but when someone does something wrong we never want to forgive them.
Vignesh S.V
#47. I would love to know who killed my father. So would my brother." Her next words stunned me and left me breathless. "We want to forgive them. We want to forgive, but we don't know who to forgive.
Desmond Tutu
#48. I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.
Marilyn Monroe
#49. Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an attitude is the correct one, that all paintings should be figuratively mutilated, and that all artists are fair game, or really grateful perhaps for a few tips.
Walter J. Phillips
#50. To be pure, forgive yourself.
To love others, forgive them first.
Debasish Mridha
#51. The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
Jane Fonda
#52. You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them ... but still move on without them.
Mandy Hale
#53. God forgives us, as - when - we forgive them who injure us - and ourselves. These last weeks I think I have understood what many times in the past I thought I knew - but we never know - we never reach the end of understanding - the understanding of God - the mystery of his love ...
Lucy Beckett
#54. You know you truly love somebody ...
When they hurt you
And you still forgive them
And they let you down
But you don't leave them
And they leave you
But you can't help thinking about them
Mouloud Benzadi
#55. People suit their star sign. If someone is annoying me over and over, and I know they're a Sagittarius, say, I'm more likely to forgive them. It comes down to my need for structure as a way of finding my bearings with people.
Jessie Cave
#56. If someone treats you bad and they apologise for it: Forgive them.
If someone treats you bad twice and they apologise for it: Drop them.
Steven Aitchison
#57. Yeah, life is complicated. But it's also very fucking short.
If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit ... the least you can do is try to forgive them.
Brian K. Vaughan
#58. People who love us do black magic on us, but they don't know what they do. That is why we must forgive them; they don't know what they do.
Miguel Ruiz
#59. People are gonna disappoint you sometimes. We're flawed creatures. Not one of us is perfect, not even you, and you've gotta let people mess up and then you've gotta forgive them. That's just life.
Jenny Han
#60. So when someone would love to see you fail, forgive them, and draw upon that motivation to succeed.
Donald L. Hicks
#61. One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.
Nick Hornby
#62. What heart has not acknowledged the influence of this hour, the sweet and soothing hour of twilight, the hour of love, the hour of adoration, the hour of rest, when we think of those we love only to regret that we have not loved them more dearly, when we remember our enemies only to forgive them.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#63. You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.
Daniel Handler
#64. Women are so unfair. Just by smiling once, they could make you forgive them for everything.
Go Ikeyamada
#65. Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.
James Richardson
#67. I've never subscribed to that 'Love means never having to say you're sorry' bullshit. In fact, love means you always get the chance to say you're sorry. When we love someone, we always want to forgive them.
Pamela Ribon
#68. When you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if forgiveness is generous or selfish. Maybe both.
Miguel Syjuco
#69. Remember that many "negative" people were conditioned by people with smaller minds and hearts, so forgive them.
Bryant McGill
#70. In the end, you have to forgive in order to heal and move forward with your life. For people who hurt you very deeply, you don't have to forgive them for their sake but for your sake, so that you can move forward and have a healthier and happier life.
Dominique Moceanu
#71. We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.
Golda Meir
#72. The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them
Mother Teresa
#73. The only reasonable thing was to accept the good of men and be patient with their faults. The words of the dying God crossed his memory: Forgive them, for they know not what they do. CXXII
W. Somerset Maugham
#74. Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is ... just forgive them and let it go.
Deepak Chopra
#75. Father, forgive them; they don't know what they're doing!
Anonymous
#76. Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!
Karl Kraus
#77. A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
Laurel Lea
#78. The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
Baron De Montesquieu
#79. Punishing people who don't know what they've done is barbaric"
" forgive them for know not what they do
Milan Kundera
#81. Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.
Bob Dylan
#82. Still hurting so much today from what my prior Pastor and
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church board did to me last year, and I really want to get past that. I want and need to forgive them, to move on with my life and look forward, forget the past.
Michael Richard Stosic
#83. Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them." Blanche
Somethings you forgive, somethings you never forgive." Kate
Neil Simon
#84. I started thinking about, I need to build a team. And let's go into the strip clubs, and let's tell these girls that it's never too late, that God still will forgive them at any point in their life.
Heather Veitch
#85. And loving someone doesn't mean you have to love everything they do. But it does mean you forgive them a little more often, a little more easily.
Melanie Harlow
#86. I thought if you loved someone you were supposed to, like, forgive them. I thought that was what love was supposed to be all about."
Cork shook his head: "Easy to say, harder to do.
William Kent Krueger
#87. One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing ... I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.
Kingsley Amis
#88. Remember, this type doesn't really believe He'll forgive them, by repenting they are trying to earn what they do not think, in any case, He will pay.
Geoffrey Wood
#89. It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.
Diane Arbus
#91. To become like the Father whose only authority is compassion, I have to shed countless tears and so prepare my heart to receive anyone, whatever their journey has been, and forgive them from that heart.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#92. 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
#93. There is evil in everyone. The first step toward loving someone else is to recognize that evil in yourself, so you can forgive them.
Veronica Roth
#94. Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve.
Dan Brown
#95. You are worth loving. They just don't have any love to give. Forgive them, Margo.
Tarryn Fisher
#96. Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.
Rachel Gibson
#97. I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.
Richard E. Grant
#98. What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)
Saint Augustine
#99. Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do'
People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.
Eliphas Levi
#100. But again, pain hurt, no matter how it was inflicted. If Jesus could forgive Peter and everyone else who hurt and betrayed Him, she could too. "Okay, I forgive them." She meant the words. If this was what it would take to be free from the hurt, then it was worth the pain.
Kimberly Rose Johnson
