Top 100 Quotes About Cannot Forgive
#1. When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over ... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you.
John O'Donohue
#2. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean De La Bruyere
#3. Breath, Perry. Let the air become you, and then leave you. Forgive each breath because although it abandons you, every single time, it is also brings you life. A man who cannot forgive the air has no chance of living. (Vin)
Edmond Manning
#4. To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!
Greg Laurie
#5. He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. GEORGE HERBERT
Philip Yancey
#6. True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.
Desmond Tutu
#7. Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
Confucius
#9. A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.
John Steinbeck
#10. You cannot forgive just once, forgiveness is a daily practice.
Sonia Rumzi
#11. If you cannot forgive others, how can you forgive yourself?
Debasish Mridha
#12. The power of our activism, campaigns, movements, and strategies cannot forgive sins or raise the dead.
Michael S. Horton
#13. There are injuries which nature cannot forgive; she would cease to be nature if she did.
Thomas Paine
#14. There is no sin that Jesus cannot forgive.
Jim George
#15. God is continually, literally, second-by-second covering our sin under His Son's blood and forgiving us our sins. God cannot love us unless He forgives us and cannot forgive us without a commitment to love us.
Dan B. Allender
#17. 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
#20. 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
#21. I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.
Blaise Pascal
#22. But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.
Susan Sontag
#23. He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#24. The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.
Ray Bradbury
#25. Rightly looked upon,' mused Gotthold, 'it is ourselves that we cannot forgive, when we refuse forgiveness to our friend. Some strand of our own misdoing is involved in every quarrel.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#27. The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.
W. H. Auden
#28. Have compassion and forgive the mistakes of others. If you cannot forgive ignore but never hate them, because hatred will always lead to destruction.
Alok Jagawat
#30. If you cannot forgive because of hurt inflicted by others, you will be unwilling to be vulnerable for fear of being hurt again. Because people are sinners, you cannot love and you cannot minister without getting hurt.
Walter A. Henrichsen
#31. He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
George Herbert
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him.
Pope Francis
#35. I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone.
Conchitina Cruz
#36. The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
Marquis De Sade
#38. The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith - and He will forgive.
Billy Graham
#39. 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
#41. When it comes to men, women will insist that a lunge in their direction is not always welcome, and yet they cannot forgive a man who does not even attempt a sexual pursuit. Strange creatures, aren't they?
Dave Franklin
#43. I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.
Lewis B. Smedes
#44. A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM.
John Bevere
#45. There is one thing God's love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner.
Billy Graham
#46. You cannot win your future if you cannot forgive your past
Ikechukwu Joseph
#48. 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
#49. Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.
Mary McCarthy
#50. Give me strength to forgive. Because he who forgives is the greatest. And I know I cannot forget.
Mesa Selimovic
#51. 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
#53. We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.
Laurence Sterne
#54. Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.
Jane Espenson
#55. 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
#56. Our hearts do not need logic.
They can love and forgive and accept that which our minds cannot comprehend.
Hearts understand in ways minds cannot.
Lois W.
#57. No sinner is irreparable or irredeemable. No sin is so great that the blood of Jesus cannot cover it. His love is so deep and wide that he can, in one moment of our faith, forgive our past, present, and future sins. Sin is simply not a problem for God.
Judah Smith
#58. Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
Rajneesh
#59. We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!
Neal A. Maxwell
#60. I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.
Lord Chesterfield
#61. The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
Steve Maraboli
#62. 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
#63. I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
#64. The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.
Brennan Manning
#65. 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
#67. You cannot do more than you can, so be gentle with yourself and quick to forgive your mistakes and to move on.
Toni Sorenson
#68. Your failings cannot be so great that you cannot overcome them with faith in our Lord; he forgave me mine, he will forgive you yours. You have but to desire it.
Roseanna M. White
#69. A Betrayal I cannot undo what I have done; I can't un-sing a song that's sung. And the saddest thing about my regret - I can't forgive me, and you can't forget.
Lang Leav
#70. But your ability to forgive is worthless if you cannot turn it upon yourself. If you do not, the darkness you seek to defeat will eat you from the inside.
Jeremy Robinson
#71. You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
Ben Kingsley
#72. Friends, whoe'er ye be that are immured in that prison, forgive me that, to my misfortune and yours, I cannot deliver you from your misery;
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#73. Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself.
Ethan Hawke
#74. There is not and cannot be in the whole world such a sin that the Lord will not forgive one who truly repents of it. A man even cannot commit so great a sin as would exhaust God's boundless love. How could there be a sin that exceeds God's love?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#75. If at times my words seem angry, you must forgive me. In my mind, there is great anger. No one who has seen the suffering of our children and the tears of our grandmothers cannot be angry. But in my heart I struggle to forgive, because the land is my teacher, and the land says to forgive.
Kent Nerburn
#76. I thank thee, Lord, for forgiving me, but I prefer staying in the darkness: forgive me that too." - "No; that cannot be. The one thing that cannot be forgiven is the sin of choosing to be evil, of refusing deliverance. It is impossible to forgive that. It would be to take part in it.
George MacDonald
#77. Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free.
Craig Groeschel
#78. You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.
Leon Brown
#79. I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.
Pep Guardiola
#80. We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.
Billy Graham
#81. We are a god- fearing nation of forgivers. You may have bombed our hotels & killed our people, we will still not hang you. If we cannot give life, who are we to take one? No matter how heinous the crime, we do not judge. We live & let live.
Andy Paula
#82. A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
Stevie Smith
#83. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
C.S. Lewis
#84. And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.
John E. Hines
#85. Stop, Morgian. Your wiles cannot avail you now.' He turned to the High King and said, 'The hurt this woman has done me, I readily forgive. It is for the harm that she has caused others that she is to be judged.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#86. Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.
Choa Kok Sui
#87. I could no more pray the Our Father, I could no longer call myself a Christian, if I refuse to forgive. Humanly speaking, I cannot do it, but God will give us his strength!
Philip Yancey
#88. The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
Lewis B. Smedes
#89. Beware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God: God is so kind and loving that of course He will forgive us. That thought, based solely on emotion, cannot be found anywhere in the New Testament. The only basis on which God can forgive us is the tremendous tragedy of the Cross of Christ.
Oswald Chambers
#90. So I will just say it. I cannot love you as a man loves a woman. I am so sorry if I have presumed what is not true or have taken liberties with your sentiments. I hope you can forgive me.
Shannon Hale
#92. I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."
Robert Southey
#93. To begin loving people today, we must close the door on the past. And that cannot happen without forgiveness! Forgive those who have hurt you - for your sake, not because they deserve it.
Rick Warren
#94. You must also forgive yourself. You must forgive yourself for any past mistakes and failures that you cannot forget.
Laura Aranda
#95. Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift:
it is so nearly what would please me
I cannot but perfect it
Laura Riding Jackson
#96. I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline.
Forrest Gregg
#97. The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.
Anne Rice
#98. We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive - and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation.
Sharon Salzberg
#99. You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything ... We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.
Lewis B. Smedes
#100. Appreciate what they can give, forgive them for what they cannot.
Elizabeth Isaacs
