Best 1057 quotes in «forgiving quotes» category

To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

To err is human, but to forgive, well that's right on.

To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary.

To err is human, to forgive supine.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

To forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.

To forgive does not mean to forget.

To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.

To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

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

To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

To my abusers: I forgive you.

To not forgive is to drink a little poison each day and expect the other person to die.

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

To understand is to forgive.

True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.

Trust that whatever you are dealing with, whatever doorway to crisis you experience, it is leading you to a greater lesson in liwing where ideally the power of love is what you learn. Forgive, and broadcast your excitement to be alive.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue more in need of application in our time than the virtue of forgiving and forgetting? There are those who would look upon this as a sign of weakness. Is it? I submit that it takes neither strength nor intelligence to brood in anger over wrongs suffered, to go through life with a spirit of vindictiveness, to dissipate one’s abilities in planning retribution. There is no peace in the nursing of a grudge. There is no happiness in living for the day when you can ‘get even.

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Virtually all student debt in the US is now held by the federal government. It would therefore be a relatively simple matter to forgive some, if not all of it. This would enable young people to transition much more easily into creating their own households and families. At the same time, if the government is going to enact a major program of student debt forgiveness, it should be at least equally committed to relieving the heavy mortgage debt burdens still carried by tens of millions of non-affluent households in the aftermath of the 2007-09 financial crash and Great Recession.

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever.

We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves.

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls.

We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement, . . . by forgiving those who have offended us, . . . by rendering selfless service. . . .

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...