138 Quotes Found
"I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!"
"Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge."
"And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness."
"Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity."
"I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration."
"And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad."
"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."
"I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart."
"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."
"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."
"I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness."
"I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness."
"I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members."
"I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition."
"I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness."
"I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life."
"The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission."
"China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks."
"I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation."
"There is no forgiveness in nature."
"Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness."
"Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you."
"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."
"God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility and I do."
"I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility."
"I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness."
"I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives."
"As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses."
"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."
"On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt."
"Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend."
"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."
"I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti."
"To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment."
"'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work."
"Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts."
"When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier."
"On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level."
"I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion."
"I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance."
"Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual."
"My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness."
"I find forgiveness to be really healthy."
"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins."
"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."
"We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness."
"If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption."
"God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency."
"Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong."
"We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges."
"I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself."
"The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption."
"I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night."
"I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba."
"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."
"We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive."
"I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred."
"Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past."
"Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge."
"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."
"The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive."
"Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart."
"If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt."
"Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation."
"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart."
"For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?"
"Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness."
"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."
"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
"Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning."
"Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions."
"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."
"Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense."
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find 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."
"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."
"Forgiveness is God's command."
"Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness."
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
"Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness."
"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives."
"I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his."
"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him."
"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."
"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
"I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead the living have no right to forget."
"It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."
"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
"The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements."
"My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person."
"Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself."
"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself."
"Forgive, son men are men they needs must err."
"God will forgive me. It's his job."
"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."
"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."
"Without forgiveness, there's no future."
"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough."
"It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them."
"It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited."
"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
"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."
"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast."
"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on."
"Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself."
"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness."
"The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."
"To be social is to be forgiving."
"One forgives to the degree that one loves."
"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."
"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."
"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."
"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."
"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."
"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."
"A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable."
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."
"To err is human to forgive, divine."
"How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all."
"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."
"Forgiveness is the final form of love."
"People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on."
"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven."
"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave."
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."
"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well."
"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."
"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that."