Best 1057 quotes in «forgiving quotes» category

My forgiving you doesn't make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

My heart forgives and releases. Inner peace is my goal.

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.

My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched creature: I have sinn'd; but be thou merciful, and grant that yet I may enjoy what thou wilt have me love!

Never forgive at the ballot box!

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.

No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.

No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either – although this actual person is abominably good-looking – it does not depend upon intelligence or character or – anything – as you say, it is just it.

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Offended self-love never forgives.

Not 'Don' in that I-m-sorry-and-now-you'll-forgive-me-like-you-always-do-way. Not this time, Keenan." (Donya)

Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands.

No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.

Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.

Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

Oh, Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations. Thou art Everywhere, but I worship thee here: Thou art without form, but I worship thee in these forms; Thou needest no praise, yet I offer thee these prayers and salutations. Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations." - Ash

O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end.

One can forgive but one should never forget.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it.

One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.

One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what it is.

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

One of the surprising things that Brezhnev said when we were in our talks, was - when I proposed that we make these changes in nuclear weaponry, he said, "God will never forgive us if we don't succeed." And, you know, coming from the leader of an atheistic communist country, this surprised everyone.

One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to confine the stories you can tell about characters to tropes of bone-headed action and old models of psychological realism. And as readers, too, we have been conditioned to understand characters as - and forgive me for saying it out loud - what the market says they should be. Namely, safe, clean, proper.

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.

Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.

Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.