Forgiving Quotes

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. (Robert Frost)
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. View quote
Ann Landers
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide. View quote
Rebecca Wells
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on. View quote
Bill Cosby
To be social is to be forgiving. View quote
Robert Frost
In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving - from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself. View quote
Patty Duke
Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared. View quote
Geraldo Rivera
Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away. (Ayumi Hamasaki)
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. View quote
Dale Carnegie
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive. View quote
Angela Carter
I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me. View quote
Amy Tan
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. View quote
P. D. James
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. View quote
Anne Lamott
I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting. View quote
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place. View quote
Sacha Guitry
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)
Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt. View quote
Václav Havel
Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians. View quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory. View quote
Martha Beck
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. View quote
Meg Cabot