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Quotes About Forgiveness

Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.
~ Anonymous
Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover.
~ Susan Coolidge
For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got angry, scolded God, were egotistical or testy or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.
~ Phyllis McGinley
He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd.
~ Matthew Prior
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimation, and yours too.
~ Josh Billings
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
~ Arabic proverb
Apologize, v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Apology - a desperate habit, and one that is rarely cured.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Repentance is for little children.
~ Adolf Eichmann
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
~ John Dryden
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's good only for wallowing in.
~ Katherine Mansfield
If I die, I forgive you: if I recover, we shall see.
~ Spanish proverb
God will pardon me. It's his business.
~ Heinrich Heine
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Vengeance is a dish that should be eaten cold.
~ English proverb
Revenge is an inhuman word.
~ Seneca
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
~ Oscar Wilde
A man must learn to forgive himself.
~ Arthur Davison Ficke
It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
~ Billy Joel
I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it.
~ Jimmy Carter
He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.
~ Bible
In Adam's Fall We sinned all.
~ New England Primer
I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning.
~ William Shakespeare
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
~ Caroline L. Gascoigne