Best 1057 quotes in «forgiving quotes» category

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?

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.

Offended self-love never forgives.

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

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.

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.

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

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

One can forgive but one should never forget.

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

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 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 may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it.

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

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.

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

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 reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

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

Only the truly magnanimous and strong are capable of forgiving and loving.

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.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human lives can we get off the guilt trip and back into the flow. That means we must love our humanness and all of our failings; we must accept, learn from, and yes, even love our mistakes.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.

Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.

Our God is a forgiving God.

Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.

Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge!

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

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

Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.

People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on.

People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

People piss you off but its always important to forgive and forget.

People who hold on to grudges, insist on being right, and try to change other's minds have a difficult time maintaining healthy, happy relationships. Surrendered people easily forgive. They are open to new ideas, and aren't attached to being "right." As a result, people love working and collaborating with them. Others seek them out as mediators and advisers. They are more laid back and relaxed than their rigid counterparts, which makes them highly valued by others.

Pause and remember - It is never too late to begin again, to forgive someone, to have a dream, to meet someone or to love yourself. It is never too late!

People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.