Top 100 Quotes About Forgiving
#1. I went further than forgiving the clerk, I accepted her as a fellow victim of the same puppeteer. On
Maya Angelou
#2. 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
#3. I'm not always able to think about so much loss without bitterness and anger. I don't know if I'll ever be capable of loving my enemies; I'm not always capable of forgiving myself.
Sara Miles
#4. The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.
Caroline Myss
#5. Books allow readers to determine what they wish. People often aren't quite as forgiving if you don't read or see exactly what they wish you to.
Anne Mallory
#6. Forgiving, giving, and receiving with compassion is life's ultimate mission.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#8. 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
#9. It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.
Don Henley
#10. 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
#11. The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.
Pope Francis
#12. To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
#13. 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
#14. Forgiving someone who has wronged you is actually a selfish act rather than a selfless one.
Robin S. Sharma
#15. Life (like love) is forgiving and hopeful and, like a bold flower pushing out from the narrow crevice in a rock, will take any gap we allow. However small or large.
Sally Andrew
#16. 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
#17. I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.
Augusten Burroughs
#18. All we achieve by exacting revenge is to make ourselves the equals of our enemies, whereas by forgiving we show wisdom and intelligence.
Paulo Coelho
#19. Parenthood ... It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.
Peter Krause
#20. [Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
Willa Cather
#21. My wish for both of you is that the biggest fight you have is over who is the most forgiving.
Jamie McGuire
#22. A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger."
Gary Smalley
#23. Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
Bob Woodward
#24. You achieve greatness, not by accumulating wealth, but by becoming king, loving, forgiving, and simple.
Debasish Mridha
#25. My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
Janine Turner
#26. The heart is resilient and forgiving, it is the mind that causes us stress.
Alexandra Elle
#27. Maybe it's just easier to hold onto resentment and bitterness.But when you hold onto them, you're imprisoning yourself, not the other person. Not forgiving is pretty heavy baggage to carry around.
Cathy Bryant
#28. She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.
Suzanne Collins
#29. There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way.
Steve Carell
#31. God will forgive you if you forgive others. Forgiving those who cause offence or injury is often exceedingly difficult. And yet, forgiveness is one of the most beautiful and important teachings of Jesus Christ. It is central to the gospel because, without it, you can't go to heaven.
Patrick Madrid
#32. The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.
Susan Sarandon
#33. Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.
Pope Francis
#34. Ordinary points of bravery, the synchronistic moments we all engage in, and the transformative power of minding our voices, forgiving, trusting, and learning to love ourselves and our lives, while we wait.
Andrea T. Goeglein
#35. A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
Alexander Pope
#36. Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.
Jean Webster
#37. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.
Elton John
#38. But forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself.
Jodi Picoult
#39. Forgiveness is inherently powerful enough to extend itself wholly and completely to us even when we are the ones in need of forgiving ourselves.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Nelson Mandela
#41. Love can be many things. Cruel. Exhilarating. Deceitful. Jealous. Hateful. But at its purest form, love can be redeeming - forgiving.
Mia Asher
#43. 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
#44. Don't be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.
Pope Francis
#45. She swears you can make it stop by forgiving and moving forward. I'm moving forward, but I'll never forgive.
Carrie Ryan
#46. Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.
Choa Kok Sui
#47. By not forgiving, by not letting wrongs go, we aren't getting back at anyone. We are merely punishing ourselves by barricading our own hearts.
Jim Cymbala
#48. The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.
Mardy Grothe
#50. We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P.D. James
#51. You deserve to live your best life now, so set yourself free by forgiving and letting go of that hurt you've been holding on to.
Jamie Larbi
#52. The entire hope of fallen humanity rests on this one thing - that there is a Savior who is eternally steadfast in redeeming, forgiving, reconciling, transforming, and delivering love.
Paul David Tripp
#53. 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
#54. Forgiving someone else doesn't give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on.
Charles F. Glassman
#55. Phryne looked at a large statue of St. Joseph, for whom she had always had an admiration. It can't have been easy, managing a girl with an inexplicable pregnancy. But he had accepted the word of the Lord and not put her away. Later generations had not been so forgiving.
Kerry Greenwood
#56. People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill Cosby
#57. 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
#58. But really, the term "forgive and forget" doesn't make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn't always healthy. But if we forget, we don't learn from our mistakes. And that can be deadly.
Meg Cabot
#59. The kiss he laid on her was caring, tender, and forgiving, and the kiss she gave back was convincing, trusting, and fiery with love.
Lisa Gillis
#60. Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the music!
Jared Leto
#62. 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
#63. Being attractive is so much more than just being pretty; it is about the whole package, replete with energy, kindness, humor, brains, a forgiving heart and, for me, one of the biggies - authenticity.
Monica Parker
#64. Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.
Marianne Williamson
#65. A godlike person is always giving and forgiving but not expecting anything.
Debasish Mridha
#66. The Lord never gets tired of forgiving. "Never," Francis said. "We are the ones who get tired of asking him for forgiveness.
John L. Allen Jr.
#67. 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
#68. Grace means primarily the free, forgiving love of God in Christ to sinners and the operation of that love in the lives of Christians.
A.M. Hunter
#69. The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
Catherine Ponder
#70. I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.
Tory Burch
#71. Forgiving someone never alters what they did. That never changes."
(Bitter Roots)
Karin Kaufman
#72. Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
Freeman Dyson
#73. Forgiving someone only absolves you from holding them accountable. When that person has not truly met that accountability, it is a weakness on your end, Miss Rachael. To forgive when they are unrepentant only relieves you of that responsibility.
Deidre Huesmann
#74. 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
#75. Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them.
Colleen Hoover
#76. Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One.
Saadi
#78. Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.
Stieg Larsson
#79. Victoria was, at the time, far more empathetic and forgiving, chiding Albert for his narrow view of humanity. 'I always think that one ought always to be indulgent towards other people, as I always think, if we had not been well brought up and well taken care of, we might also have gone astray.
Leslie Carroll
#80. ...the only trick with friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are - not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving - and then appreciate them for what they can teach you...
Hanya Yanagihara
#81. I like to think of love as being slightly more forgiving than time.
Cath Crowley
#82. What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#83. Damon: If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.
Kevin Williamson
#84. It is better for a leader to make mistake in forgiving (a guilty person) than making a mistake in punishing (an innocent). (Prophet Mohammed - peace be upon him)
Anonymous
#85. I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.
Lorraine Bracco
#86. Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#87. True repentance is a turning from sin ... Humanly speaking, it is our small part in the plan of salvation. Our part is repenting. God will do the converting, the transforming, and the forgiving.
Billy Graham
#88. For a great life it is a necessity to be kind, but for the greatness of life it is essential to be forgiving.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Horses are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we're not capable of filling ourselves.
Buck Brannaman
#90. Forgiving is an inward act that establishes outer boundaries; it is an undefeatable triumph of self-compassion that proclaims you are no longer a victim.
Bryant McGill
#91. God understands us, He waits for us. He doesn't get tired of forgiving us. If we repent and go to him with a truly open heart.
Pope Francis
#92. She was busy thinking about the concept of forgiveness. It was such a lovely, generous idea when it wasn't linked to something awful that needed forgiving.
Liane Moriarty
#93. It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
#94. Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#95. Its best, the church administers the sacraments by feeding, healing, forgiving, comforting, and welcoming home the people God loves. At its worst, the church withholds the sacraments in an attempt to lock God in a theology, a list of rules, a doctrinal statement, a building. But our
Rachel Held Evans
#96. 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
#97. If the goddes can forgive her, can't we?"
"I think there's a big difference between forgiving her and makin her into something she wasn't just because she's dead
P.C. Cast
#98. I'm an actress and a singer and I'm also a Christian. We're not all crazy right-wingers. I just want to be like Jesus, forgiving and loving and nonjudgmental, accepting of everyone even if they don't agree.
Kristin Chenoweth
#99. Ego doesn't want us to be loving, forgiving and kind to each other or even to ourselves.
Taite Adams
#100. Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.
Jerry Stiller
