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Quotes About Forgiven

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
~ Lord Chesterfield
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
~ Harlan Coben
We must forgive people because of our obedience to God and our compassion for them, so that we forgive for God's sake and for their sake. We should forgive because we are grateful for God's forgiveness toward us, not so that we could retain health and peace. We should not need a selfish motive to forgive others. We are able to show compassion on those who repent, because "God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us" (Romans 5:5).
~ Unknown
That's the unforgivable sin, you know. What is? Refusing to forgive someone. Refusing to forgive someone is the unforgivable sin? I asked incredulously.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Lord says to forgive is devine. -The Lord didn't go to high school with you.
~ Unknown
When my death us do part Then shall forgiven and forgiving meet again, Or will it be, as always was, too late?
~ Unknown
My forgiveness was so authentic and total that I looked forward to seeing each of them. I longed to look into their eyes and say not only "I forgive you," but to tell them of the greatest event of forgiveness the world has ever known when Christ on the Cross, and at the peak of his agony, could say of his executioners, "Forgive them father, for they know not what they do.
~ Louis Zamperini
The one who forgives can sleep in peace, but not the one who needs to be forgiven.
~ Unknown
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten
~ Aesop
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Forgiveness brings peace to your heart and wings to your soul.
~ Jean Paul
Forgive and Forget: He who forgives his brother shall be forgiven by God. And, he who forgives and forgets and loves his brother shall receive from God the gift of grace.
~ Unknown
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven
~ Unknown
Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don't want the other person to forget that we forgave
~ Ivern Ball
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
I only hope that I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and those I have wronged.
~ Jack Abramoff
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.
~ William Blake
O, treacherous Death! You can't be forgiven for vanquishing my creator to the dust...
~ Unknown
O outono é a única estação civilizada. A primavera é um descontrole glandular da Natureza. O inverno é o preço que a gente paga para ter o outono, e por isso está perdoado. O verão é uma indignidade. [...] Clássicos ao pé do fogo, um vago cachorro e sherry seco contra o catarro. Um gentleman não deve suar, meu caro.
~ Luis Fernando Veríssimo
Easter is a time to rejoice, be thankful, be assured that all is forgiven so life extends beyond the soil of earth.
~ Byron Pulsifer
For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
~ Marcel Proust
Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.
~ Bible
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
~ Saint Francis of Assisi