Forgive Quotations

I have a bit of a problem with 'American Idol.' Forgive me, but it's difficult for me to watch. I can't help but think of people being exploited. On the other hand, I'm really enjoying 'Glee.'

I grew up in a strong faith-based family. I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my family, for myself and to protect our children and to forgive others and move on and face forward.

If I sold something, and it didn't perform, I'd never forgive myself.

What's so cool about God and our government is that you can make a mistake, and they will forgive you if you just a good person and doing right.

All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.

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.

In the end, you have to forgive in order to heal and move forward with your life. For people who hurt you very deeply, you don't have to forgive them for their sake but for your sake, so that you can move forward and have a healthier and happier life.

May God forgive us for the times when we as individuals and as a Church failed to seek out and care for those little ones who were frightened, alone and in pain because someone was abusing them. That we did not always respond to your cries with the concern of the Good Shepherd is a matter of deep shame.

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

My mother is the most incredible woman on this entire Earth, and she's so giving and loving and sweet and she always raised me how to forgive and forget and move on. She's the catalyst behind it all, my mom is. And I'm 100% a momma's boy!

We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.

Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.

Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.

It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

What's on your mind? If you'll forgive the overstatement

What's my job description? That's what I'm doing at that time. No, I don't forget (what is said). I will never forget. I forgive you but I don't forget. I forgive everybody.

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.

Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past.

The protests must be pursued everywhere. Bush and Rice should keep quiet and we tell them that we will not forgive those who offend our Prophet.

So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

O my Lord, these are my lowly actions, O my Lord. O Lord, Har, Har, Treasure of Virtue, Merciful Lord, please bless me with Your Grace and forgive me for all my mistakes.

O Lord God, You are the One and Only Giver; You forgive us, and unite us with Yourself. Servant Nanak seeks Your Sanctuary; if it is Your Will, please save him!

She loves Danny but she can't forgive him.

Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don't want the other person to forget that we forgave

Maybe we will forgive but we will never forget the people, the party and the government that brought this about,

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged

My advice in a nutshell is to learn to forgive one another. And keep nurturing the marital friendship as you would any other meaningful friendship. I like to think that the definition of marriage is a lifelong partnership in which you have a consistent witness to the 'stuff' of your life.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.

New York didn't need that 1969 pennant...all Cub fans wanted was that one measly pennant. It would have kept us happy until the twenty-first century. But New York took that from us and I can never forgive that.

I am disappointed, but at the 18th hole I gave the putt a chance. It just sort of missed on the high side, ... It was one of the few putts I got to the hole all day. I would never forgive myself if I left it short.

I appeal to all Irishmen to pause, to stretch out the hand of forbearance and conciliation, to forgive and forget, and to join with me in making for the land they love a new era of peace, contentment and goodwill.

Certainly all of our lives are unfinished, ... how they must learn to forgive what they perceive as wrong in their life, whether that wrong was committed by other people or by some form of cosmology.

I feel no mercy for him. He obviously didn't show my daughter any mercy, and I don't know if I could ever forgive him for what he's done to myself, to Danielle ... and to our family.

I forgive the people in the White House for their numerous humiliations and accusations. I forgive because we must embark, through dialogue, on the search for peace and social justice.

I forgive them for what they did. I hate the crime they did,

I forgive him. He's a young kid, searching for love. Something's lacking in his life.

If I was mistaken in some way, please forgive me, but stop with this constant philosophy of forgiving and forgetting.

Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves... for growing up.

If we think about it, in terms of racial and ethnic strife or things, if we don't forgive, we'll just stay the same. If we don't forgive people, we can never make any progress.

He did something to me that traumatized my life, and I'm never going to forgive him for it.

He looked at me in the eyes and said, 'If you'll forgive my accent -- Where I come from, you are Public Enemy No. 1.'

Today, I will forgive those people who have hurt me, and I will forgive myself for letting them hurt me...

'To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

To err is human, to forgive is divine. I forgive the God for making this universe.

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

Former adversaries can come together to find common ground in a way that benefits all their people, to let go of the past and embrace the future, to forgive and to reconcile.

He just got to finish the race, you can see the finish line and I think Zambians will never forgive him if he did not finish. We have people who have sacrificed their lives to support us.

I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as they can to the American people, as the president is attempting to do with these speeches. The public will not forgive you for losing even if it seems to reflect what they thought they wanted.

I think we've come a long way because five years ago the world was in denial, and now we get Kate Moss getting caught and she says, 'Mea culpa. I'm sorry.' We live in a world in which we forgive and we grow. I'm acknowledging her heroism because I think it's fantastic she stood up and said, 'Yes, I did it.'

I will never forgive this girl. Never. I will never forgive them. Not the daughter. Not the mother. Never.

I will never forgive them, not after the accusations they've made.

I think they've got to be aggressive and to make Martha more accessible initially, ... America has got to know that she's not the same defiant Martha she was before. That's the challenge. If she can be humble through all of this, I think America will forgive her.

I think there is enormous understanding and tolerance for an argument from necessity, and there's willingness to retroactively forgive what might strictly speaking be violations of the law.

I think for both of us, and, hopefully, for all of us, we wonder, 'Do the dead view us? Do they forgive us our sins? Do they accept us? Do they shepherd us? ... So that aspect was in the book and the film, both.

I see an opportunity that we must not miss. I wouldn't have been able to forgive myself if I hadn't, because of political party considerations or inconvenience, lent a hand to the move ... Sharon is leading.

Please forgive me for not saying I'll try to do better.

My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

I was really pleased, ... As I say, I had ups and downs in my career. The older you get, time passes on, people forgive and move on. It was really nice. I enjoyed the reception I got and the support from the public. It was great.

You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything... We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.

Without a doubt, God led me to your message because I had never been to your Web site before. Please forgive me for letting the highlights of your message speak through me to our ladies, without getting your permission. You were a blessing to them and to me.

We had to learn in just six weeks what geishas spend their whole lives learning. There were seven torture rooms, ... But we were lucky that Kaori and Ken were there to keep an eye on us to make sure we were doing it properly. Please forgive us if we did anything wrong.

We'll forgive a 1-900 charge on a one-time basis, on the condition that the customer places a 1-900 block on their line.

This town has such a passion about women's basketball. Hats off to our fans. I think I may have seen a couple leaving early, but we'll forgive them.

To the kidnappers, I would say, 'I know Tom could forgive you for the evil you've done.' I hope I would be able, too.

Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

There are judges at all levels who may face a situation where there is a potential conflict of interest, either a situation where an attorney presenting a case before them has given a large sum of money or where the judge, as a candidate, has made statements implying favor or bias for one side of a case over the other. Many judges will remove themselves from a case if a conflict is apparent, but there are no official standards. A conflict that one judge might step aside for, another judge might not see as a problem. Rather than a standard set of guidelines for everyone to use it really is, forgive the pun, a judgment call.

The prevailing sentiment is shame. I beg PSG fans to forgive us for our performance.

We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor

Do you ever notice, asked Luisa, "how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic . . . while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

First you must forgive those who you have any grudges against, ... That way the Father will forgive you and answer your prayers.

Islam will not forgive the Americans for a long time - the fact that they destroyed a country like Iraq and war continues there.

The stay here was good. We cleaned up the program. I want to move on. I have no hard feelings. I forgive but never forget.

I vote Libertarian, straight ticket. But otherwise, Kinky Friedman, because he's not a politician, even though he's a liberal. I'll forgive him for that.

Sometimes you have to find the strength to forgive someone every time you think of them. It might get easier over time, but you have to allow the emotions to wash over you. It's almost like mourning the loss of someone who never passed. 

So sad is a man who has never learned to forgive

Progress is being made. The American people need to know that, ... Mistakes have been made, too, and I believe the American public is an understanding public and are willing to forgive as mistakes are acknowledged.

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right.

Oh, I don't want to talk about what we did. Peter would never forgive me.

The ones who did it, they're going to have to deal with God on their own, so I forgive them.

Some people forgive a lot easier than others,

On December 19, 1959, at 8:30 at night I placed my trust in Christ as Savior and Lord and asked Him to come into my life and forgive me.

A point-three increase is a big increase. ( But ) to the extent the increase was due to tobacco prices, the market may be willing to forgive it, dismiss it, to put it aside.

That the only person who can save you is yourself. The only person you can really forgive is you.

This community is never going to forget. Can it get to the point of seeing this as one individual or situation, and moving to forgive in that respect? Hopefully. But it is not going to happen overnight, or because of the trial or a one-year anniversary or a 10-year anniversary.

This guy's got charisma, the public will forgive him for anything if he can get Blair out of office.

Above all, we must forgive the unhappy souls who have elected to make the pilgrimage on foot, who skirt the shore and look uncomprehendingly upon the horror of the struggle, the joy of victory, the profound hopelessness of the vanquished

Forgive what may seem cut speech if I say that, in my judgment, a President with a just sense of duty has no option in such a case.

Forgive people with cheer once, forgive them thereafter with pity.

It is the holiday season; it is a forgiving time of year. If the Indiana Pacers can find it in their hearts to forgive him, he would like to stay in Indiana. They have stuck with Ron through rough times. However, by no means did Ron mean the situation to escalate the way it did.

It's mostly done with smiles and being very enthusiastic. No matter what you're saying, if you're doing it in a likable enough way, they'll forgive you.

Every night, I pray to her and talk to her. There's not a night that goes by that I don't. I ask her to forgive me.

It's better late than never. But their customer base is not going to forgive them for RIM turning them into cannon fodder during the process.