Top 100 Forgiven Quotes
#1. Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.
Robin Hobb
#2. There are some facts that will never change. One fact is that you are forgiven. If you are in Christ, when he sees you, your sins are covered-he doesn't see them. He sees you better than you see yourself.
Max Lucado
#3. 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
#4. How can I stand here forgiven and free of all my past mistakes, and not forgive you?
Arlene James
#5. The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.
Rob Bell
#6. So it had something to do with the sinner, and something with the judge, and the fear of not being forgiven, and the relief of being loved again.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#7. But that's not all. The resurrection is also God's "Amen" to our "It is finished, for I believe that when he died, I died, and when he rose, I arose; I believe that you have forgiven me and made me righteous and will raise me up on the last day.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#8. Sometimes people need to know they could be forgiven to have the strength to change.
J. Leigh Bralick
#9. I didn't, because the idea of apologizing felt inadequate. I wasn't sure that I was ready to be forgiven. So I kept quiet and swallowed my guilt.
Penny Reid
#11. Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
Salman Rushdie
#12. Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.
Henry B. Eyring
#13. Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.
Thomas Sherlock
#15. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
C.S. Lewis
#16. Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.
John Piper
#17. It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.
J. Budziszewski
#19. I like the bumper sticker that reads, "Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven." But that does not give us license to live below God's standard.
Billy Graham
#20. The past cannot be undone. At best it can be understood so, perhaps, it can also be forgiven.
Barb Malek
#21. Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what's in a person's heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things.
Muhammad Ali
#22. For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He ... or she ... is cut short before he ... or she ... can atone for sin, and so all errors must be forgiven. When you think of it that way, all murderers are a gateway for heaven.
Stephen King
#23. Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those who reform will be forgiven; Why the good will be rewarded, And the thief who is cunning will escape.
Laozi
#24. Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
#25. I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.
W. Somerset Maugham
#26. See the mountains kiss high Heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea -
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#27. Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.
Shannon Wiersbitzky
#28. I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!
Diane Lane
#29. Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#30. In the sin department, she stood side-by-side with Eric, neither one better than the other. Both cleansed, forgiven, and redeemed by the precious blood of the Lamb.
JoAnn Durgin
#32. Assassination creates an instant hero of its target. Any past sins are not just forgiven but utterly forgotten.
Lesley Hazleton
#33. When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.
Lisa Kleypas
#34. You come here because you wish to find your faith again. You can't fool God, either. He knows everything, and it's okay, because He'll forgive you. The question is whether you're ready to be forgiven
J.M. Darhower
#36. You made me hate the person I was becoming - only because you wanted me to - and for that, you will never be forgiven.
Ahmed Mostafa
#37. If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.
Neil Gaiman
#39. Mon Dieu, look, look," says Antoinette. "He lives. He lives! And he seems such the happy mouse."
"Forgiven," whispers Lester.
"Cripes," says Furlough, "unbelievable."
"Just so," says the threadmaster, Hovis, smiling. "Just so."
And, reader, it is just so.
Isn't it?
Kate DiCamillo
#40. 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
#41. It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.
Kurt Vonnegut
#42. Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.
William Wordsworth
#43. Sins can only be forgiven if they are first confessed.
Mary MacDowell
#44. A man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.
Martha Ostenso
#45. A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.
P. J. O'Rourke
#46. Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
Frederick Buechner
#47. Forgive not because the other person deserves to be forgiven but because you deserve to be at peace. Forgive because you love yourself more than the need to be "right.
Mira Kelley
#48. I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.
Jan Karon
#49. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.
I want to imagine there will be peace when I am gone, that I will see all of the people I have loved and lost. At least that I will be forgiven.
Kristin Hannah
#50. Any act would be forgiven him, but the act itself would remain; what he would leave in the world would be the shame and hurt he forced upon others. This could not be.
David Kirk
#51. A Christian is not simply a person who is forgiven and goes to heaven. A Christian, in terms of his or her deepest identity, is a saint, a spiritually born child of God, a divine masterpiece, a child of light, a citizen of heaven.
Neil T. Anderson
#52. If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.
Napoleon Hill
#53. Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten
Aesop
#54. The English will never be forgiven for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get off their own island.
Hilary Mantel
#55. Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven; To his feet thy tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, Who like me his praise should sing?
Henry Francis Lyte
#56. It's sad to wander about the graveyard of my tired memory, where all hurts have been forgiven, where every sin has been more that atoned for, every riddle unriddled and twilight quietly cloaks the crosses, now no longer upright, of graves I once wept over.
Teffi
#57. G Our Father in heaven, h hallowed be i your name. [1] 10 j Your kingdom come, k your will be done, [2] l on earth as it is in heaven. 11 m Give us n this day our daily bread, [3] 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And o lead us not into temptation,
Anonymous
#59. A fool in love is laughed at but in the end always forgiven
J.M. Coetzee
#60. In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#62. It's too much to be forgiven when all you want is to be blamed.
Non Pratt
#63. To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life ... to beauty all is forgiven.
Muriel Barbery
#64. Mr. Dawson's wife was really so very meek that I fear when the Day of Reckoning comes much of this tyranny will be forgiven him and laid to her account.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#65. If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.
David Lloyd-Jones
#66. 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
#67. If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
George Bernard Shaw
#69. The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt
#70. 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
#71. Love God more than you fear hell. Make major decisions in a cemetery. When no one is watching, live as if someone is. Succeed at home first. Don't spend tomorrow's money today. Pray twice as much as you fret. God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same.
Max Lucado
#72. Maybe I've forgiven him, but I just haven't forgotten
C.C. Hunter
#73. I am not sure that digging in our past guilts is a useful occupation for the very old, given that one can do so little about them. I have reached a stage at which one hopes to be forgiven for concentrating on how to get through the present.
Diana Athill
#74. If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#75. She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven.
Louis Bromfield
#76. Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
Boyd K. Packer
#77. But at what age are you forgiven your trespasses?
Rodney Ross
#78. People don't forget. Nothing gets forgiven.
John Marston
#79. What relief! What comfort! What joy! Those laden with transgressions and sorrows and sin may be forgiven and cleansed and purified if they will return to their Lord, learn of him, and keep his commandments
Spencer W. Kimball
#80. If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
Dolores Huerta
#81. Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
John Galsworthy
#82. The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.
Rick Warren
#83. Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#84. For a while this seemed to do the trick, and I felt that whatever contamination I had helped to spread, the boundaries I had helped to break, sprinkling flakes of myself all over the surface of New York like so much fish food, had been forgiven.
Olivia Sudjic
#85. Truly, the world is in need of moral leadership ... that teaches the difference between right and wrong and teaches us to forgive one another even as we are forgiven by our Father in heaven.
Billy Graham
#86. Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.
Mary Baker Eddy
#87. Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.
Henry Van Dyke
#88. Allowing one's self to be forgiven is just as hard as forgiving. Harder in some ways. Because to be forgiven, one first has to admit to being at fault.
Laura Lippman
#89. A disciple can be forgiven if he does not have great mental ability. He can be forgiven also if he does not display outstanding physical prowess. But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal. If his heart is not aflame with a red-hot passion for the Savior, he stands condemned.
William MacDonald
#90. Even if I could be forgiven, how long could I keep up the insincere apologies I made in pain, once I was back in my comfortable old high place. IV-98. For never can true reconcilement grow / Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep:
Joseph Lanzara
#91. Do not put off any longer confessing all your sins, for death will soon come. Give and it will be given you; forgive and you will be forgiven ... Blessed are they who die repentant, for they shall go to the Kingdom of Heaven!
Francis Of Assisi
#92. ...confession means saying that somewhere in the mix was a choice, and the choice was made by us, and it does not need to be excused, explained, or even understood. The choice needs to be forgiven.
John Ortberg
#93. Words spoken in the heat of the moment may be forgiven; words preserved for ever on parchment may overreach their mark once passion has abated.
Susan Kay
#94. Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
Lord Byron
#95. 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
#96. The Good News is that when we trust God's grace to save us through what Jesus did, our sins are forgiven, we get a purpose for living, and we are promised a future home in heaven.
Rick Warren
#97. I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I'm immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it's such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd.
Jason Mraz
#98. To the athlete, all things are forgiven
Alec Waugh
#99. In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.
Dag Hammarskjold
