Famous Quotes
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
- W. H. Auden on Forgiveness
- My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
- Janine Turner on Forgiveness
- My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
- Janine Turner on Forgiveness
- Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. on Forgiveness
- Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
- Scott Adams on Forgiveness
- On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.
- Edward Albert on Forgiveness
- On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
- Laura Schlessinger on Forgiveness
- Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
- Marlene Dietrich on Forgiveness
- One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine on Forgiveness
- One forgives to the degree that one loves.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Forgiveness
- One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
- Ian Mcewan on Forgiveness
- People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby on Forgiveness
- Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
- Elbert Hubbard on Forgiveness
- Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
- Jane Austen on Forgiveness
- Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
- Dar Williams on Forgiveness
- Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
- Kevyn Aucoin on Forgiveness
- Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor on Forgiveness
- The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
- Bryant H. McGill on Forgiveness
- The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.
- Joe Nichols on Forgiveness
- The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
- Rick Perry on Forgiveness
- The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
- Marianne Williamson on Forgiveness
- The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
- William Blake on Forgiveness
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore De Balzac on Forgiveness
- The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
- Elbert Hubbard on Forgiveness
- The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson on Forgiveness
- The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
- Robert Rainy on Forgiveness
- The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde on Forgiveness
- The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
- Simon Wiesenthal on Forgiveness
- The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
- Cheryl Hines on Forgiveness
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Forgiveness
- There is no forgiveness in nature.
- Ugo Betti on Forgiveness
- There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill on Forgiveness
- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings on Forgiveness
- These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.
- Norm Dicks on Forgiveness
- To be social is to be forgiving.
- Robert Frost on Forgiveness
- To err is human to forgive, divine.
- Alexander Pope on Forgiveness
- To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
- Lewis B. Smedes on Forgiveness
- To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.
- Jose Bergamin on Forgiveness
- To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
- Alexander Chase on Forgiveness
- We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
- T. D. Jakes on Forgiveness
- We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.
- T. D. Jakes on Forgiveness
- We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
- Frederick William Robertson on Forgiveness
- Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.
- Billy Ray Cyrus on Forgiveness
- Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
- Nancy Grace on Forgiveness
- When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky on Forgiveness
- When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
- Emo Philips on Forgiveness
- When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.
- Craig T. Nelson on Forgiveness
- When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
- Honore De Balzac on Forgiveness
- When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
- Bernard Meltzer on Forgiveness
- Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
- Roberto Assagioli on Forgiveness
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