Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
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.
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.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
God will forgive me. It’s his job.
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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.
Love in the real world means saying you’re sorry 10 times a day.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
It’s far easier to forgive an enemy after you’ve got even with him.
Forgiveness is God’s command.
I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.
The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements.
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
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.
It’s toughest to forgive ourselves. So it’s probably best to start with other people. It’s almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
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.
