Quotes About Forgiving

people who do not forgive are hurting themselves much more than they're hurting others. A person who possesses this characteristic and keeps score in relationships is a person who is emotionally wired to carry all the stress that goes with carrying grudges.

The only thing I hate about you, is that I can't stay mad at you.

Forgiving is rediscovering the shining path of peace that at first you thought others took away when they betrayed you.

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.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

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.

The one who forgives little, loves little.

Proclaim forgiveness and reconciliation, which are the only way to achieve stable harmony.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Good luck trying to find someone who cares like I did, who understands you like I do and who is forgiving like I am and when you realize there's no one out there like me...I won't be where you left me...

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

The most merciful person is the one who forgives when he is able to revenge.

Forgive and forget, and don't hold grudges, because those who hold grudges are immature, those who never forgive are weak, and those who accept things the way they are, are growing.

My problem is that I can't stay mad I always end up forgiving people even when they don't deserve it.

If you truly love someone, you will do whatever it takes for both of you to last forever. You will learn to be more patient, caring, understanding, trustworthy, faithful, forgiving and tolerant. You'll learn to be less argumentative, doubtful and judgmental. Just trust your heart with your mind.

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

I called to mind the noble glance, kind and compassionate, of that Albertine, her plump cheeks, the coarse grain of her throat. It was the image of a dead woman, but, as this dead woman was alive, it was easy for me to do immediately what I should inevitably have done if she had been by my side in her living body (what I should do were I ever to meet her again in another life), I forgave her.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said seventy times seven. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!