We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.

I really want to say, 'Thank God I'm alive.' I want to forgive the people who caused my suffering. I did.

The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.

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

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Some people just can't forgive. And that's just the way life is. You know, I can't forgive some things, either.

I didn't know if I would ever reconcile with my family, and I needed to believe that I could forgive, regardless.

There are some things that other people just don't want to forgive you for. For instance, Woody Allen and Soon-Yi.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

I forgive 'Face in the Crowd' its uneven tone because it's precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

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

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

You are changed by the people you are closest to, and this has allowed me to forgive myself for the person I once was.

If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

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.

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

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

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

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.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

The act of choosing to forgive is not easy at the moment of hurt and pain, but in the long run, it is the only way to go.

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.

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.

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

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

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

If it's a heartbreak-related stress, I like to listen to Lauryn Hill's 'Forgive Them Father' the most, especially the harmonies.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

You have to take all the ups and downs that come your way like a pinch of salt. Just leave everything behind. Forgive and forget.

The quality of the work when I was 16... I've had my issues with it, but I've learned to forgive myself because I was 16 years old.

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.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

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