Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juan Manuel Santos

The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Josh Billings

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

Josh Billings

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Josh Billings

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Karl Kraus

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

Karl Lagerfeld

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Joyce Cary

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

Oscar Wilde

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Paul Tillich

Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

Martin Luther

Forgiveness is God's command.

Martin Luther

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.

Nicole Kidman

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

Paul Eldridge

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Marya Mannes

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

Mary Wortley Montagu

forgive what you can't excuse ...

Oswald Chambers

Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

Nhat Hanh

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

Nhat Hanh

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Nhat Hanh

Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.

Jodi Picoult

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

John Greenleaf Whittier

For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true living; Love scarce is love that never knows The sweetness of forgiving.

P. D. James

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

P. D. James

the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.

Mary McCarthy

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

Marvin J. Ashton

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm sorry' I said again. Whenever someone tells you something said, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you're already said it before.

Neal A. Maxwell

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

Madonna Ciccone

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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.

Lorrie Moore

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

Michael Jackson

I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

Michel de Montaigne

One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.