Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven.

Burt Reynolds

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

Alain de Botton

We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

Edmund Burke

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Eckhart Tolle

Forgive yourself for not being at peace.

Claire Danes

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

Amanda Lindhout

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

Anne Graham Lotz

There is nothing at all that God won't forgive

Chuck Palahniuk

If we can forgive what’s been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we’ve done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.

Ambrose Bierce

When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.

Ambrose Bierce

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

Douglas Wilder

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

Desmond Tutu

If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.

Desmond Tutu

As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.

Desmond Tutu

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

Desmond Tutu

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Desmond Tutu

True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

Corrie Ten Boom

God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, 'Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.'

Carl Jung

The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.

Wendell Phillips

Never forgive at the ballot box!

Billy Graham

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

William Shakespeare

The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus

Billy Sunday

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."

James Payn

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.

Francois Truffaut

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

Jose Ramos-Horta

More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.

Kevin Williamson

Damon: "If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.

Jonathan Nolan

How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget?

Napoleon Hill

If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.

Mahatma Gandhi

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

Gail Collins

DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.

Gabrielle Zevin

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

Emile M. Cioran

I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.