Forgive Quotes

Restoration and hope is available each time you return to God.

~ Jim George

He was not prepared to deal with my mistake, thought Jane, and he did not understand the suffering his response would cause me. He is innocent of wrong -doing, and so am I. We shall forgive each other and go on. It was a good decision, and Jane was proud of it. The trouble was, she couldn't carry it out. Those few seconds in which parts of her mind came to a halt were not trivial in their effect on her. There was trauma, loss, change; she was not now the same being that she had been before. parts of her had died. Parts of her had become confused, out of order...She discovered, as many a living being had discovered, that rational decisions are far more easily made than carried out.

~ Orson Scott Card

Never' is an unquantifiable and unrealistic amount of time.

~ Ruth Cardello

Show your children God’s love by loving them and others as Christ loves you. Be quick to forgive, don’t hold a grudge, look for what’s best, and speak gently into areas of their lives that need growth.

~ Genny Monchamp

Don’t forgive people until they understand their mistakes.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

~ Samuel Johnson

When we forgive, we're saying to our heart that we are ready to move on.

~ Milan Ljubincic

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Love is what happens when we forgive. I forgive Connor Evans. A part of me will always love him, but from this day on I won't hate him. Not for one minute. I forgive him because he gave me Max.

~ Karen Kingsbury

When we forgive, we're telling our heart that we are ready to move on.

~ Milan Ljubincic

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

~ Christopher Buckley

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.

~ Isabelle Holland

If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

~ T. D. Jakes

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

~ Honoré De Balzac

It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.

~ Carrie Fisher

Of course God will forgive me that's His job.

~ Heinrich Heine

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

~ Robert Frost

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

~ Camryn Manheim

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.

~ Billy Corgan

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

~ Claire Danes

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

~ Maya Angelou

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

~ Marianne Williamson

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

~ Alexander Pope

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

~ Les Brown

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

~ Oscar Wilde

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

~ Robert Frost

Forgive those who have hurt you.

~ Les Brown

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

~ Phillips Brooks

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

~ Catherine The Great

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

~ T. D. Jakes

God forgive you, but I never can.

~ Elizabeth I

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

~ Hillary Clinton

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

~ Alan Paton

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

I never forgive, but I always forget.

~ Arthur Balfour

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

~ Euripides

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

~ Lana Turner

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

~ Marianne Williamson