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Quotes About Forgive

You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.
~ Graham Greene
Katie had visited Belfast many times before, but mostly to the city centre, for meetings with the Crime Operations Department, and she had forgotten how blatant the hostility still was between republicans and loyalists. UFF could almost have stood for Us? Forgive and Forget? Dunboyne
~ Graham Masterton
For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God help us. God forgive us. We live on.
~ Gregory David Roberts
In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
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.
~ Barbara Marciniak
The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.
~ Steve Martin
Simply put: love does.
~ Bob Goff
Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
~ Emily Bronte
I'm real petty. I remember everything like an elephant.
~ Israel Adesanya
Ui: I don't muzzle the animal that does my heavy lifting. I overlook the foibles of my employees.
~ Bertolt Brecht
When your humanity gets put on display in these awkward expressions, the only path to peace in your relationship is forgiveness.
~ Bill Farrel
I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.
~ Amy Adams
We are all going to die soon. Do you really wish to waste time being angry at me?" "Yes. I remain an unrepentant optimist. If i see that I am about to die, or you, I will forgive you. But not until then, you bastard.
~ Sherry Thomas
Despite all her strengths, there was a certain brittleness to her. Sometimes she retreated into her keep. Sometimes she ran away. But she did not forgive and she did not forget.
~ Sherry Thomas
Love commitment requires no last chances, but the resilience to forgive and forget.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
The love of Christ fills our hearts and makes us always able to forgive!
~ Pope Francis
Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your heart, and find it unlovely. You will be certain that (...) you are the greatest of monsters. This is a good thing; although you may forgive yourself, you must never come to think that your actions were in any way justifiable. But- (...) Being a sane, honorable human being is not always comfortable.
~ Mercedes Lackey
I was more pissed off in retrospect than I'd been at the time. I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.
~ Sue Grafton
You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do. To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited.
~ Susan Sontag
Fear can make it hard to forgive, and to trust other people.
~ Josi S. Kilpack
New York has a kind of push," he argues further. "I know. You never have time to think. It's one of its charms." "Yeah, it is." He can forgive New York's shortcomings and think of them as charms, but he cannot forgive L.A. for the spaces between the words, the blandness and the complete absence of push.
~ Eve Babitz
I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.
~ Ezra Pound
There is one thing God's love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner.
~ Billy Graham