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Quotes About Forgive

I can never forgive God for having invented the French
~ Peter Ustinov
God forgive you, but I never can.
~ Elizabeth I
God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
~ Charles Spurgeon
God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness.
~ Pope Francis
But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.
~ Elizabeth Smart
The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.
~ John Donne
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
~ Walter Scott
Forgive me for using the term 'fat little brother'. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health.
~ Fidel Castro
I'm home. I hope the Manchester United fans forgive me for being late.
~ Robin Van Persie
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly
~ Paulo Coelho
Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget.
~ Ray A. Davis
Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.
~ Jane Espenson
Maybe this is the beginning of madness . . . Forgive me for what I am saying. Read it . . . quietly, quietly. —OSIP MANDELSTAM
~ Edwidge Danticat
I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a problem." There is. There's a huge problem. And I should tell you. If anything goes wrong and you get hurt, I'll never forgive myself. "No problem," I said.
~ Kelley Armstrong
The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.
~ W. H. Auden
Pray you now, forget and forgive.
~ William Shakespeare
The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.
~ Wystan Hugh Auden
Here's the thing: What I hold in my mind will, in time, show up in my face, for as George MacDonald once pointed out, the face is "the surface of the mind." If I cling to bitterness and resentment, if I tenaciously hold a grudge, if I fail to forgive, my countenance will begin to reflect those angry moods. My mother used to tell me that a mad look might someday freeze on my face. She was wiser than she knew.
~ David Roper
Love. Forgive. As you forgive, you will be forgiven.
~ Davis Bunn
Forgiveness has to be repeated, the bible says seventy times seven.
~ Max Patrick
Weep. Forgive but don't forget. Allow your tears to lay the path to your future happiness.
~ Ane Krstevska
Always be kind and comport yourself well, my child, for that will be your only happiness in life." "You mean that I will otherwise be unhappy?" "Yes," she said, "everyone has times of sorrow, but you will have more than most. And also you will have much to forgive." "But why?" "Because it will happen that you will have to forgive the only source of happiness you will know.
~ Elizabeth Berg
In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat the inescapable disappointments of intimacy. We humans come into this world—as Aristophanes so beautifully explained—feeling as though we have been sawed in half, desperate to find somebody who will recognize us and repair us. (Or re-pair us.) Desire is the severed umbilicus that is always with us, always bleeding and wanting and longing for flawless union.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon,If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live;And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne