The Ability To Forgive Quotes

#1. Carolyn and I struggled with how or if to forgive while we dealt with the impact of the clinic's actions. Kevin Anderson helped us by introducing the idea of intolerant forgiveness: the ability to forgive the person who committed the error, but not the actual mistake.

Carolyn Savage

#2. The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.

Alyson Noel

#3. Here's a thing I've noticed: the greatest leaders, the ones who impact the world the most, are somehow able to turn the other cheek. It's as though they believe so solidly in love, so robustly in forgiveness, they have the ability to forgive and even love those who attack them.

Donald Miller

#4. Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It's something the rest of us strive for.

Jennifer Skiff

#5. But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

Elizabeth Smart

#6. The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

Bryant McGill

#7. But wasn't a best friend also someone you could trust not to hurt you? I had hurt Vicki, yet here she was, opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.

Barbara Delinsky

#8. You hacked the FBI?" I said incredulously. "And Interpol," Sloane replied brightly. "And you'll never guess what I found.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#9. Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go."
"Not a bad ability."
" ... I'm not sure. I think we have to remember it all before we can forgive it.

Madeleine L'Engle

#10. There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

Dalai Lama

#11. Luckily for parents, children have great resilience and a generous ability to forgive.

Bruce Springsteen

#12. I don't want you accusing me of treating you like all my other dates."
"Does that mean you won't fuck me at the end?"
"It means I won't leave you at the end.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#13. It's all because of you. Your bravery, your zest for life, your ability to shake off the negative. You are radiant now because you chose to be happy and forgive your past.

Jenni James

#14. Think about a dog's ability to forgive. This to me is love.

Cesar Millan

#15. You have ability and people who don't never forgive you for it. Your very existence is a constant reproach to them.

H. Beam Piper

#16. Three things will make you more powerful: the power of your non-judgmental love, your ability to forgive the unforgivable, and a heart that cares.

Debasish Mridha

#17. I really never cared about any occupation or stream. I just wanted to be an eminent personality.

Bharat Budhani

#18. The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

Peter Singer

#19. Meditation is both the symbol and expression of our intention to grow. Sitting still, alone with our thoughts and feelings, we can honor missed opportunities, passing desires, remembered disappointments, as well as our inner strength, personal wisdom, and ability to forgive and love.

Sebastian Pole

#20. This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

Terence McKenna

#21. 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

#22. I speak from experience that even in darkness, it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. There it is: I still believe in man in spite of man.

Elie Wiesel

#23. Some wounds; never reflects on the skin, but kills us slowly from inside.

Durgesh Satpathy

#24. Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent ... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

Kevin Allen

#25. If money could have changed the world, money would have changed the world.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#26. Some people just think utopians are idiots who are imagining rivers of candy and not really engaging with the world's ills, and sometimes that's surely the case, but I think that imagining the perfected society is a way of expressing your disgust with the current state of affairs.

Christine Jennings

#27. Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

R. K. Milholland

#28. What really helps motivate me to walk are my dogs, who are my best pals. They keep you honest about walking because when it's time to go, you can't disappoint those little faces.

Wendie Malick

#29. Please God, I'm begging you

Sarah Dessen

#30. Ronan said, "Keep it up, and you just might be a mechanic after you graduate. They'll put that in the alumni magazine.

Maggie Stiefvater

#31. You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

John Lewis

#32. Heavenly Father, forgive me my sins. Forgive me my weakness and fear. Help me to fight my cowardice. Strengthen my ability to withstand the sight of suffering, so that I might do Your work in relieving those who endure it. -Toti

Hannah Kent

#33. God has smiled on me, He has set me free. For us to acknowledge that we have been set free from toxic dependency, from crippling obsession or guilt, that we have been graced with the ability finally to forgive someone, is just plain astonishing.

Anne Lamott

#34. One of the most wonderful things you can do in this world is forgive others. We are designed to have flaws and make mistakes. If we emulate God, we are led to forgive. Giving someone the ability to recapture their dignity can transform lives. Do it often.

John Fairclough

#35. 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

#36. Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

George S. Patton

#37. Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#38. You can't stop loving someone if you had already fallen; all you can do is hurting yourself

M.F. Moonzajer

#39. People hurt each other. It happens to everyone. Intentionally, unintentionally, regretfully or not. It's a part of what we do as people. The beauty is that we have the ability to heal and forgive.

Adi Alsaid

#40. Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive?

Miriam Toews

#41. Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

Cynthia Ozick