Forgiving You Quotes

#1. They're [children] less forgiving. You have to be very conscious of the fact that they're not going to just accept things; they're going to question. They're going to move around if you bore them. They'll actually leave. So you really have to be on your toes.

Linda Woolverton

#2. Love isn't about trusting you'll never hurt me. It's about being sure you'll never do it on purpose and forgiving you when you unintentionally do.

L.L. Kellogg

#3. Jin always smiled at me like we were both about to be in big trouble and he loved it. The prince smiled like he was forgiving you for it.

Alwyn Hamilton

#4. For imagine having somebody beside you day and night loving you and forgiving you and petting you forever and ever, that must be a better description of hell than being put into a boiling lake or cauldron of ice that burnt your black.

James Purdy

#5. Why are you going to let people who are hell-bent on not forgiving you keep you from something that could actually be great?

Katie Cotugno

#6. Do you really want to know the simplest secret to a happy life and a positive attitude? It's believing that God is on your side; that He's actively working on your behalf, that he loves you and is capable of completely forgiving you.

Toni Sorenson

#7. To err is human, to forgive is divine ... but I'm only a cardinal and cardinals are human, so rather than forgiving you I'm going to err towards beating you with this stick.

Mark Lawrence

#8. My forgiving you doesn't make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.

Abbi Glines

#9. You're worried about her forgiving you...but you need to be worrying about why you're acting up in the first place.

Angela Flournoy

#10. We can make choices, but we can be vulnerable; we can do the wrong thing, but the wrong thing for all the right reasons. I think it [life] is basically about forgiveness, and not about someone else forgiving you, but you forgiving yourself. I think we all want a lot of that.

Kelli O'Hara

#11. Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.

Neil T. Anderson

#12. Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#13. When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.

Joyce Meyer

#14. Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.

Wayne Dyer

#15. It is easy to find peace if you are kind, loving, and forgiving.

Debasish Mridha

#16. If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him.

Abdu'l- Baha

#17. Imogenia's temper flared. "I was to become queen when you died, Father! He will pay," she snarled. "Honey," the king objected, "I'm not going to say I understand how you feel, but not forgiving someone hurts you, not the one you hate.

L.R.W. Lee

#18. Forgiving's a choice you make - a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.

Lurlene McDaniel

#19. Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. My dad always said that 90 percent of marital problems could be solved by getting your blood sugar up, and he's right! So I would say pick a partner who's forgiving when you have low blood sugar and threaten to drive your car through your shared home.

Casey Wilson

#21. Fear is the root cause of just about all physiological disorders. Know that when people hurt you or attack you, they are living in fear.

Sandra M. Michelle

#22. Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.

Andy Andrews

#23. Success
something your friends will never forgive you.

Julian Tuwim

#24. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

Paul The Apostle

#25. If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

R.C. Sproul

#26. The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.

Burt Reynolds

#27. There's just nothing funnier than, like, a guy awkwardly explaining to another guy that he's hurt his feelings, and then later, awkwardly, you know, forgiving him for doing that.

Seth Rogen

#28. You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.

Nelson Mandela

#29. Forgive yourself for what you think you've done or not done. At every moment, you had your reasons for all of your actions and decisions. You've always done the best that you could do. Forgive yourself.

Doreen Virtue

#30. Everytime you forgive you disappoint the devil.

Rick Warren

#31. Was it you that killed me, or did I kill you?" Abel answered. "I don't remember anymore; here we are, together, like before."

"Now I know that you have truly forgiven me," Cain said, "because forgetting is forgiving. I, too, will try to forget.

Jorge Luis Borges

#32. Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.

Val McDermid

#33. Forgiving someone may cost you your pride, but not forgiving them will cost you your freedom.

Charles F. Glassman

#34. When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

Catherine Ponder

#35. And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way

Leonard Cohen

#36. Life is a miracle thus don't let it slip away
You were given a heart and a purpose for reason
so love and cherish each day
See the beauty in everything and know everything is beautiful
Be gracious and forgiving and follow the examples
of Gods only son.

Sandile Sean Mntla

#37. Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

Chetan Bhagat

#38. What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.

Charles Spurgeon

#39. Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering
remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

Desmond Tutu

#40. The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

Confucius

#41. We can't be perfect all the time and that's okay. In the heat of the battle, in the heat of the moment, you might say things or do things that aren't right, but at the same time, Christ forgives us. Christ will always forgive you.

Mark Teixeira

#42. Jesus didn't just die to forgive you, He rose to live through you.

Rich Wilkerson Jr.

#43. Don't forgive and never forget; Do unto others before they do unto you; and third and most importantly, keep your eye on your friends, because your enemies will take care of themselves!

JR

#44. Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him ... even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven ... Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.

Mercedes Lackey

#45. The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

Mignon McLaughlin

#46. If you are looking to turn over a new leaf and be more kind and forgiving, I suggest starting with the person you see in the mirror each morning.

Charles F. Glassman

#47. Forgive others so that you may be forgiven.

T.D. Jakes

#48. This Universe is made by God by one universal rule: everybody has a standard of birth, growth, and death, except man. God is extremely forgiving, but if you do not acknowledge what you have, in gratitude, you will never have more, and if you care to get it, something will be lost.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#49. Something that's bigger than you, and something that's kind and forgiving, I'd heard one of the meeting leaders say. That's all your Higher Power has to be.

Jennifer Weiner

#50. You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

Maya Angelou

#51. When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.

Stephen Richards

#52. To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.

Marianne Williamson

#53. HD is not forgiving. Once you see your face for the first time in a movie cinema, you run straight to the gym.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#54. When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you're free.

Bernie Siegel

#55. You can't forgive your sin. Only God can.

Johnny Hunt

#56. I have never targeted Muslims. I have never targeted Jews. I believe that we should declare the fact that God loves you, God's willing to forgive you, God can change you, and Christ and his kingdom is open to anybody who repents and by faith receives him as lord and savior.

Billy Graham

#57. May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

Charles Dickens

#58. Forgiveness doesn't work that way. You may want to forgive, but you can't do it yet. Forgiving someone can take weeks, months, years. Sometimes it takes a lifetime.

Anne Bishop

#59. You should know by now that it takes patience and a forgiving attitude to be friends with Travis. He's his own universe."
I shook my head. "That's the Travis everyone else sees ... not the Travis I know.

Jamie McGuire

#60. Love is daily admitting to yourself, your spouse, and God that you are not able to love this way without God's protecting, providing, forgiving, rescuing, and delivering grace.

Paul David Tripp

#61. If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#62. We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can.

Ken Wilber

#63. The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

Bill Hicks

#64. Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

Jack Kerouac

#65. I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive.

Sophia Loren

#66. When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'

Kangana Ranaut

#67. Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.

Joyce Rachelle

#68. The public is very forgiving. So we're not trying to obtain some level of perfection that can't be obtained. But if you're straightforward and honest and your constituents trust you, they'll help you get through the times when you fall short.

John Shimkus

#69. You should forgive your enemies and if you haven't any, just forgive a few of your friends.

Howard Marion-Crawford

#70. What you post on Facebook represents you, it can make you look bitter or better, forgiving or frustrated, resentful or rejoicing, choose wisely.

Rob Liano

#71. I could forgive my own brother of anything, at the end of the day, because we're brothers. You can't get in between that blood.

Jeffrey Pierce

#72. But forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself.

Jodi Picoult

#73. You achieve greatness, not by accumulating wealth, but by becoming king, loving, forgiving, and simple.

Debasish Mridha

#74. My wish for both of you is that the biggest fight you have is over who is the most forgiving.

Jamie McGuire

#75. Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

Bob Dylan

#76. That's what forgiving was: seeing someone for what they were, flaws and all, not what you wanted them to be, not what they should have been.

B.G. Harlen

#77. Forgive what you can't excuse ...

Mary Wortley Montagu

#78. Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life.

Ally Carter

#79. You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines,
all this leprous day and then more vodka,
more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies,
the pond sucking out the throb.

Anne Sexton

#80. You may be hurt or not recognized for the good you do for your community, society, and humanity but be forgiving and do your best anyway.

Debasish Mridha

#81. The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.

Louise Hay

#82. Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

Shirley Hazzard

#83. Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.

Wm. Paul Young

#84. How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#85. Let your thoughts and intentions always be forgiving and loving so that you may bring true peace to mankind.

Debasish Mridha

#86. One of the surprising things that Brezhnev said when we were in our talks, was - when I proposed that we make these changes in nuclear weaponry, he said, "God will never forgive us if we don't succeed." And, you know, coming from the leader of an atheistic communist country, this surprised everyone.

Jimmy Carter

#87. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

Odette Annable

#88. Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.

Gautama Buddha

#89. Don't be afraid to go to the Sacrament of Confession, where you will meet Jesus who forgives you.

Pope Francis

#90. Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

Ronald Reagan

#91. If you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

Doris Lessing

#92. People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.

Yelawolf

#93. You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.

Yasmin Mogahed

#94. When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom.

Joyce Meyer

#95. Because God is a God of mercy and His mercy endures forever, you can trust that he will have mercy on you (See: 1 Chronicles 17:13). Therefore you can show mercy to your spouse by forgiving whenever he (she) does or says something that hurts or disturbs you.

Stormie O'martian

#96. MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

Idries Shah

#97. I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is too much for me. Forgive me if I don't have all the words. Maybe I can sing it and you'll understand.

Ella Fitzgerald

#98. By forgiving, we can move forward, knowing that God has good things in store for us. And the heaviness of spirit is lifted, and relief washes over us after we've forgiven. A new sense of hope and expectancy rises. I forgive you. Do you need to say those words today?

Barbour Publishing Inc.

#99. Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

Louise Hay

#100. Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

Leo Buscaglia