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Quotes About Forgive

Death is healing, it tells us to forgive, it reminds us that we don't want to die alone.
~ Unknown
What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.' I was thirteen, and I didn't know very much about
~ Jodi Picoult
What he did wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you." -Mary to Sage
~ Jodi Picoult
To make this thing called life work, we gotta lean and support. And relate and respond. And give and take. And confess and forgive. And reach out and embrace. And release and rely. . .
~ John C. Maxwell
If you desire to mine the gold of good intentions in others, then forgiveness is essential. And it's rarely a one-time thing. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was right when he said, "Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.
~ John C. Maxwell
Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.
~ John Keats
Forgive, sounds good. Forget, I'm not sure I could.
~ Unknown
Forgive? Sounds good. Forget? Not sure I could.
~ Unknown
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
~ Thomas Szasz
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
~ William Arthur Ward
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten
~ Aesop
What to do when you make a mistake: take ten minutes to be upset about it, Do what you can to fix it. Take a deep breath, forgive yourself and then move on.
~ Unknown
There are things you can forget but never forgive and some other where you can forgive but cannot forget.
~ Unknown
You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing
~ Jane Austen
Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened. Man's Forgiveness give - and take!
~ Edward Fitzgerald
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
~ John F Kennedy
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
~ Anais Nin
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
~ Mason Cooley
There are imperfections in our best works: we do not love God so much as we are bound to do, with all our hearts, mind, and power; we do not fear God so much as we ought to do; we do not pray to God but with many and great imperfections. We give, forgive, believe, live, and hope imperfectly; we speak, think, and do imperfectly; we fight against the devil, the world, and the flesh imperfectly. Let us, therefore, not be ashamed to confess plainly our state of imperfections.
~ J.C. Ryle
If you're looking pretty and your hair's all shiny, and there's a glint in your eye, and you say sorry like you mean it, and then kiss me on the mouth and let your hand kind of slip under my shirt so it's on my back, well, I'd sure forgive and forget.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
Always forgive your enemies but never forget their names
~ John F. Kennedy
Forgive me if I wander a little this evening, for I have been all day employ'd in a very abstract Poem and I am in deep love with you—two things which must excuse me.
~ John Keats
Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.
~ Robertson Davies
Do everything. Love as much as you can. it may hurt but it helps us grow. Give all you have...you may be poor but you will be content. Always forgive....your heart can not afford not to. Teach what you know and learn what you don't. Stay open to all
~ Unknown