Top 100 To Forgive Quotes
#1. As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.
Bohumil Hrabal
#2. 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
#3. You you think you need to forgive someone ... you got it all wrong.
Vivian Amis
#4. Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#5. If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#6. To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to learn to forgive
Tariq Ramadan
#7. Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
Charles Williams
#8. For your heart to be filled with God's love is to forgive easily
Sunday Adelaja
#9. Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.
Joyce Meyer
#11. Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.
Mike Norton
#12. I also learned afresh that friendship requires a constant willingness to forgive each other for not being Christ, and a willingness to ask Christ himself to be the true center of the relationship.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#13. Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.
Billy Graham
#14. When Jesus sees disease, He sees the opportunity to heal. When He sees sin, He sees a chance to forgive and redeem. When He sees dirty feet, He sees a chance to wash them.
Anonymous
#15. Loving someone is kind of like offering forgiveness. There's no guarantee that they're not going to hurt you again. You can't promise perfection. But you choose to love and you choose to forgive, because living in fear of being hurt again is just a facsimile of life.
Liz Johnson
#16. It's not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.
Paulo Coelho
#17. No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.
Emily Giffin
#18. Your test is to forgive those who have hurt you, when you pass your test you will see your breakthrough
Jeanette Coron
#19. I've never subscribed to that 'Love means never having to say you're sorry' bullshit. In fact, love means you always get the chance to say you're sorry. When we love someone, we always want to forgive them.
Pamela Ribon
#21. Above all, if we'd only acknowledge that all of us are mistaken from time to time, then we'd be more willing to forgive others in the hopes they will extend the same measure of charity to us.
Jonathan V. Last
#22. This is the time to love. This is the time to forgive. This is the time to ponder. This is the time to wonder.
Debasish Mridha
#23. To forgive others, in order to forgive ourselves, because in their roles as our mirrors, they have been nothing other than a tool to our lack of self-love, a lack of self-recognition, and a lack of self-respect.
Human Angels
#24. Your refusal to forgive one who has sinned against you us a manifestation of hypocrisy - a telltale sign that either you have not experenced God's forgiving grace, or that you take such grace for granted.
Joe Thorn
#25. He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.
Angela Carter
#26. The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.
Ron Smothermon
#27. When you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if forgiveness is generous or selfish. Maybe both.
Miguel Syjuco
#28. She found it easier to forgive than Ove did. Forgive God and the universe and everything. Ove got angry instead. Maybe because he felt someone had to be angry on her behalf, when everything that was evil seemed to assail the only person he'd ever met who didn't deserve it.
Fredrik Backman
#29. Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.
Jim Beaver
#30. No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.
Chris Murphy
#31. 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
#32. It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#33. Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#34. What is there to forgive? ... Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.
Jasper Fforde
#35. But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#36. I'm not going to waste my energy looking into the eyes of someone like the guy who blew my legs off trying to find a way to forgive him for doing something that horrible when there are way more productive ways I could be spending my life. You've got to focus on moving on.
Augusten Burroughs
#37. In the end, you have to forgive in order to heal and move forward with your life. For people who hurt you very deeply, you don't have to forgive them for their sake but for your sake, so that you can move forward and have a healthier and happier life.
Dominique Moceanu
#38. In a way I think Bill Clinton is more likely to forgive and move on or at least try to woo people who don't love him. But he never really tried to woo the press as much as he might have.
Dee Dee Myers
#39. If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo.
C.S. Lewis
#40. Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.
Stephen Richards
#41. The most important person ever to forgive is yourself. That is because whatever we really think, feel, or believe about ourselves gets projected out onto the world and other people.
Catherine Carrigan
#42. Our failure to know joy is a direct reflection of our inability to forgive.
Joko Beck
#43. You have to forgive to forget, and forget, to feel again.
Anonymous
#44. Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings.
Dalai Lama
#45. She knew what he was thinking: if she was asking questions like these, she was trying to understand. Trying to forgive him. He was right.
Chris Pavone
#46. We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.
Frances Hardinge
#48. Softly he continued, "You need to ask God for forgiveness. That's His job, isn't it? To forgive imperfect humankind. You are quick to forgive others and offer them kindness. Do the same for yourself.
Mary Jo Putney
#49. The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.
Stephen Richards
#50. Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.
Sidney Poitier
#51. The soul force we need in America today, more than any other, is the spirit of atonement. We need to humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness for the things we have done wrong. We need to ask God to forgive us for our arrogance.
Marianne Williamson
#52. The six people you must find today ...
Someone to love.
Someone to thank.
Someone to be grateful for.
Someone to forgive
Someone to forget
Someone to admire.
James Altucher
#53. Don't be so harsh on yourself because of your bad decisions you've made in the past and don't let them hinder your life progress. Try to forgive yourself and accept it as a learning curve for you and thank God you have managed to turn things .around.
Euginia Herlihy
#54. To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
Joyce Cary
#55. 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
#56. Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is ... just forgive them and let it go.
Deepak Chopra
#57. We watched, and he taught us like he did every day we were with him. He showed us how to forgive.
Rob Buyea
#58. I don't have to forgive you," Cath said. "It's not like that with you. You're just in with me. Always. No matter what happens.
Rainbow Rowell
#59. We love truly only those we love even in their weakness and their poverty. To forbear, to forgive, to console, that alone is the science of love.
Anatole France
#60. People who are in pain hurts other people, people who are happy makes other people happy, they don't mistreat other people. When you think of it that way it makes it easier to forgive and have a little bit more compassion towards difficult people.
Jeanette Coron
#61. Sometimes being strong means being able to forgive.
Me
#62. The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.
Jon Krakauer
#63. Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
Stephen Covey
#64. Don't you think that if God can supposedly forgive you, it's kind of egotistical for you not to forgive yourself?
Richelle Mead
#65. It is better to forgive and lose than to face the consequences.
Angela Brown
#66. Forgiveness isn't for the person making the error. It's for the person wronged. It's so you can move on without the pain, anguish, resentment. You need to forgive and mean it. Only then will you be able to move on.
Leddy Harper
#68. You can't hold on, Zoe. Not to hate. Not even to love. You kill things that way. There's only one freedom. Forgiveness. And sometimes the hardest thing to do is to forgive yourself.
Pamela Todd
#69. There is never a circumstance, no matter how catastrophic, that also does not hold within it an opportunity to better things, to better yourself. Every moment brings with it an opportunity to love, to forgive, to grow beyond your shortcomings.
Lee L Jampolsky
#70. In order to forgive, you have to remember how you were hurt in the first place. And that in order to forget, you had to accept your role in what had happened.
Jodi Picoult
#72. Within me so that my divine relationship with all men will be restored. I ask for the will to forgive and move forward in love. I lay down my weapons. I open my heart. I forgive. I let it be! And so it is!
Iyanla Vanzant
#74. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
#76. Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.
Emily Giffin
#77. In love, everyone does things that hurt the other person, so there really is no "Right" and "Wrong". You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive
Yvonne Wood
#78. Forgiveness.
It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place.
Ian Gardner
#79. One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#80. If it was a friend, perhaps, you would have felt far more injured by what he said."
"If he were a friend, all the more reason to forgive him.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#81. Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#82. Please forgive me for the way I've treated her, Rachel prayed. Please help me repair the damage I've done. Help her to forgive me too. Oh merciful Father, help me not to be so full of myself that there is no room for anyone else. And worse, no room for you.
Julie Klassen
#83. Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning.
Debbie Ford
#84. The best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ...
John Geddes
#85. I reached a healthy place in which I was able to stop projecting my needs on another human being. We both came to understand that each of us is limited in our capacity to be for another what is needed, and learned to forgive each other for not being God.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#86. I don't like saying goodbye to people. I find it much easier to forgive people than to say goodbye to them, I always have, in any facet of my life. It's hard sometimes to forgive people, but I find it harder to say goodbye if you love them.
Torquil Campbell
#87. Don't always expect good things to happen. Your job is to forgive no matter what happens.
Gary Renard
#88. Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did while rendering my heart strings, you thought you were only uprooting your bad propensities.
Charlotte Bronte
#89. Living the life I wanted was my ultimate responsibility. Learning to forgive was my ultimate act of self-love.
Andrea T. Goeglein
#91. 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
#92. The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
Richard Paul Evans
#93. A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
Laurel Lea
#94. 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
#95. Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#96. Our sins are never too great for God to forgive.
Tim Kimmel
#97. To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
Amelia Barr
#98. Learn to forgive. First others, then yourself - mostly yourself. But you have to forgive. "Get rid of the negativity. So much of your life can go down this dark drain if you let it. Every negative feeling makes you sicker. Every positive feeling makes you better.
Lionel Fisher
#99. When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips
#100. Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.
Mitch Albom
