163 Quotes Regarding Forgiveness


I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
William P. Leahy

I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.
Scott Stapp

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
William Brewster

These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.
Norm Dicks

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
Robert Rainy

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.
Sue Monk Kidd

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.
John Rowland

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.
William P. Young

Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
Mackenzie Phillips

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.
Joseph J. Ellis

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.
Nick Wechsler

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!!
Susan Smith

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.
Epictetus

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it can never forgive the preaching of a new gospel.
Frederic Harrison

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt

God will forgive me. It's his profession.
Heinrich Heine

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.
Ann Landers

Sometimes, where a complex problem can be illuminated by many tools, one can be forgiven for applying the one he knows best.
Robert Machol