Forgiving Quotes - Page 8

hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice.

Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

I always forgive, but I never forget.

... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either.

The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

Forgive yourself - no one else will.

Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!

To not forgive is to drink a little poison each day and expect the other person to die.

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.