Best 1057 quotes in «forgiving quotes» category

Laughter always forgives.

Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go.

Let's forgive the Nazi war criminals.

Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness.

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

Let us go back to the Lord. The Lord never tires of forgiving: never! It is we who tire of asking his forgiveness. Let us ask for the grace not to tire of asking forgiveness, because he never tires of forgiving.

Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Let us not forget this word: God never ever tires of forgiving us!

Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

Life is too short to waste time harboring bad feelings about anyone. Forgive, forget, then move on!

Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free.

Life never forgives weaknesses.

Life's too short not to forgive.

Life will forgive mistakes - Life will not forgive indecision ... Do SOMETHING, take a step.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive.

Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

Los Angles to me seems to be a little bit more forgiving. They're just as rowdy and they're just as excited but they understand a [botch] happens sometimes, and they're excited to see the show and they just want to have some fun.

Love forgives the lover even his lust.

Love can sort of rebound and regrow and reinvent itself around a lot of things, but when somebody can't forgive themself for something, I think love sort of withers in that situation.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time. To share in love costs us money. Every act of love costs us in some way, just as it cost God to love us. But we are to live a life of love just as Christ loves us and gave Himself for us at great cost to Himself.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all.

Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.

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.

Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.

May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of Christ and to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of divine mercy, which always hopes and always forgives, because it always loves.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

…men never forgive like women.

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that poetry, the telling images, the brevity. I want to hear it in my own work as well as in the poetry I read. However, I think I'm generally more forgiving of other poets than myself.

Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't forgive you one false note about love, about which they too are expert.

Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

My abortion was so long ago I didn't think I needed help. I hoped God had forgiven me but I hadn't realized I didn't forgive myself. After attending this safe, nurturing group I know that I am forgiven and set free.