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Quotes About Forgiveness

If we went around just throwing people on the scrap heap because of one or two things that they might have done in their youth, I think we would lose a lot of talent.
~ James Cleverly
There are curveballs that are thrown at you, and you just have to get over it and forgive... if you believe you're perfect, and you don't believe in forgiveness, you're not meant to be married.
~ Kendra Wilkinson
I'm not one who thinks that people should be locked up and thrown away the key.
~ Eric Goode
If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
~ Sophocles
People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
~ Yelawolf
After every war someone has to tidy up.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.
~ Robert Redford
We are a Commonwealth that believes in moving forward, not being tied down by the mistakes of our past.
~ Ralph Northam
The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
I have to make things right with Tiger first before anything else.
~ Fuzzy Zoeller
Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.
~ Margaret Walker
Meg reached out to Erik before he could turn away. "Are you...?" He didn't let her finish. Instead he reached inside the carriage and placed his hand tenderly behind her neck drawing her to his face. He placed hi lips softly, yet passionately on her. Hardly had he withdrawn from hers then he whispered, "Forgive me, Meg. Forgive me for wanting...?" "Ssshhh. You're here. I'm here." She raised her handkerchief and wiped the lone tear that had escaped his mask.
~ Sadie Montgomery
Grudges don't simply disappear. And I know that no matter what people tell you to comfort you, it just sounds like sarcasm." ~ Aunt Monica
~ Sahara Mizu
If you pardon the things that unfortunate people do, then what of the people killed by his selfish acts? And the people who say he should be the one killed?" ~ Juri
~ Sahara Mizu
Is a rope around the neck and a drop from the gallows all that we can do for a guy who lived his life without ever smiling? ~ Inoue
~ Sahara Mizu
I get angry with none. Will a mother get angry with her children? Will the ocean send back the waters to the several rivers. Advaita Philosophy
~ Sai Baba
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
~ Saint Augustine
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
~ Saint Augustine
Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.
~ Saint Augustine
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
~ Saint Francis of Assisi
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
~ Saint Francis of Assisi
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled, as to console; Not so much to be understood as To understand; not so much to be Loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned
~ Saint Francis of Assisi
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
Women and elephants never forget an injury.
~ Saki