It Is Hard To Forgive Quotes

#1. It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?

Emily Bronte

#2. Forgiveness is the best part of valor ... Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I've done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.

Ivo Andric

#4. Ash's jaw flexed at the mention of Bjorn. "Forgiveness is the better part of valor."
"I always thought it was 'discretion.'"
Ash shook his head. "Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. Forgive me," he said in a hard voice. "My heart is breaking over here. I'm doing the best I can.

Corrine Jackson

#6. It is quite hard when we do things that we couldn't forgive before in others,. but that's how we forgive others and ourselves at the same time. Life pushes us to those situations.

Robin Sacredfire

#7. To be angry is easy, but to forgive is hard. That's why to love is easy, and to love is hard. I try to be so hard that I'm soft, like a liquid rock, fluid and forgiving, but unmovable in my resolve.

Jarod Kintz

#8. But why is it so hard to forgive?' Mrs. Conners asked.
'Pride,' Dad said. 'This person has already wronged you in some way, and now you are the one who has to swallow your pride, give something up, in order to forgive him.

Bree Despain

#9. Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.

Rae Carson

#10. Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.

C.S. Lewis

#11. Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.

Melina Marchetta

#12. Love hard and forgive mistakes.
Not only other peoples' mistakes, but your own as well.

Savi Sharma

#13. What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.

Sylvia Plath

#14. 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

#15. There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

Alan Paton

#16. It is hard to witness to truth to people who believe truth is relative. It is hard to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to people who believe that, since morality is relative, they have no sins to forgive.

Gene Veith

#17. Anything worth having is hard to keep,
I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet.
So, let's stick it out so we never regret it,
I could forgive the past-but I never forget it.

Ghostface Killah

#18. Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#19. Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.

Meher Baba

#20. I think maybe my greatest weakness is that I trust people too much. I'm too trusting. And when they let me down, if they let me down, I never forgive. I find it very, very hard to forgive people that deceived me. So I don't know if you would call that a weakness, but my wife said "let up."

Donald Trump

#21. Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

Lillian Smith

#22. Forgiveness is not the act of doing nothing to the one who hurts you. It's easy to do nothing, but hard to forgive.

Ogwo David Emenike