Forgive Quotes

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Good, Power

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strong, Weak, Attribute

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing, Annoys

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

Time, Judge, Children

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer

Change, Future, Past

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

Forget, Saying, Two

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller

Cannot, Others, Himself

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

Yourself, Bitter, Move

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato

Life, Men, Real

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

Work, Him, Night

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert Frost

Sense, Talk, Nonsense

To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope

Human, Divine, Err

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes

Free, Discover, Prisoner

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Faith, Hope

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Strength, Hurt, Character

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy Graham

Life, God, Help

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.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, Easy, Times

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Women, Everything

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward

Love, Forget, May

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost

Great, Big, Joke

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Yourself, Nor, Return

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Les Brown

Yourself, Mistakes, Move

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

Love, Women, Nothing

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake

Enemy, Friend, Easier

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. Mencken

Girl, Thought, Remember

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
Angelina Jolie

Morning, Mother, Wife

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
Lewis B. Smedes

Person, Two, Takes

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
Hillary Clinton

Jesus, Said, Times

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz

Wise, Stupid, Forget

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