Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
Philip Larkin

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Walt Whitman

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.
Cat Stevens

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.
Jim Bakker

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.
Rick Warren

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Ovid

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Josh Billings

Forgotten is forgiven.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
George Herbert

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Paul Tillich

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.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.
Jim Bakker

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
Charles Simeon

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason Cooley

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.
Lauryn Hill

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?
Armand Assante

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
E. O. Wilson

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
Dolores Huerta

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
Aesop