Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.
I really believe in, ‘Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.’
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.
I’m generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.
My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
I think that with everything I’ve done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that’s really important to me.
If you can’t forgive yourself, you think you’re never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.
I recognise why I have such a strong inability to forgive certain people who betray me. It’s chiselled in, like a name on a tomb stone.
I’m a little slow, so forgive me if I’m inarticulate.
Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.
There’s no control in life, is there? There’s only one who’s in control, and He’ll take me when He wants me. I don’t want to know about it. It’s none of my business. But when it happens, I just ask that it won’t be painful and that He forgives me my sins.
I forgive ‘Face in the Crowd’ its uneven tone because it’s precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies.
When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.
When we think about a great movie, I mean, what do we think about? We think about story, we think about character. And when the visual effects aren’t perfect, we forgive it.
I feel a part of it, watching my husband the genius be a genius. So when he does something annoying, I can forgive him much more easily.
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!!
I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut me some slack.
I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.
People can forgive each other.
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
God forgives us… who am I not to forgive?
I’m the type of person that forgives.
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
I would like to remember all and be able to forgive everything – in due course!
I hope when I’m on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.
God forgives those who invent what they need.
As our nation’s student debt crisis has reached a breaking point, we’ve been hearing lots of talk about student loan forgiveness. It’s taken me 20 years to forgive myself for my loan – and just as long to pay it off.
I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
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.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Throwing money at something doesn’t really create – forgive me that onerous word – art.
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 say, ‘I forgive you,’ I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.
If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
I forgive very easily, and I suppose, in the same way, I expect to be forgiven very easily as well. I grew up with that.
A woman who can’t forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.
I think forgiveness is probably one of the greatest forms of self-love there is because you don’t do forgiveness for anybody else. My captors will never care if I forgive them… It will not make a day of difference to them at all, but it will make a huge difference to me.
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.
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one’s resolve to retaliate.
It’s said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies – because you never know when you’ll have to work with them.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Life is too short for resentments, and I always forgive.
I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
So many people ask, ‘How could you forgive your mother for the way you were raised?’ It’s really not forgiveness, in my opinion. It’s acceptance. She’s never going to be the sort of mother who wants to take care of me.
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.’
God will forgive me; that’s his business.
If I didn’t forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don’t forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage.
No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
He who forgives readily only invites offense.
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
There is nothing at all that God won’t forgive.
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.
