Forgiving Quotes - Page 12

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

I am now willing to forgive myself . . . for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself.

This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

If you can't forgive yourself, how can you expect me to?

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

Forgiving is...recognizing the injury, owning the pain, & reaching out.

People piss you off but its always important to forgive and forget.

I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

To my abusers: I forgive you.

To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.

There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba

In Christianity, it's very clear that the god we worship is equal to love. The bible says, 'God is love'. The god we worship was sacrificed, crucified on the cross, tortured, spit on, and was still forgiving. This is our highest example.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.