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Forgive
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Some
Going
I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
- Aaron Carter
Country
Bush
If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?
- Adam McKay
Some
Sincerely
I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me.
- Adoniram Judson
Why
Cheated
Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, 'You're disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.' But women, we're supposed to be like, 'He messed up. He made a mistake.'
- Adrienne Bailon
Who Am I
Forgives
God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?
- Alan Paton
Forgiveness
Even
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
- Alexander Chase
Forgiveness
Err
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
- Alexander Pope
Dream
Will
I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.
- Alveda King
Work
Sometimes
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.
- Amanda Lindhout
Mother
Learned
I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
- Amy Tan
Rooting
Reader
If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.
- Andy Weir
Father
Own
To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
- Angelina Jolie
My Life
Through
When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.
- Anne Graham Lotz
God
Nothing
There is nothing at all that God won't forgive.
- Anne Graham Lotz
Sleep
Wake
Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
- Charles Olson
Willing
Forgiven
It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.
- Charles Williams
Me
Lot
I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.
- Christopher Buckley
Work
Forgiven
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.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Stress
Suffering
When we forgive someone, it doesn't excuse their actions; it frees us from our own chronic stress and suffering, so it's in our own self-interest.
- Dean Ornish
People
Other
People can forgive each other.
- Jo Brand
Love
Enemy
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Give
May
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.
- John Wycliffe
Love
Divided
People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.
- Jonathan Carroll
Nature
Wrong
God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.
- Julia Ward Howe
Forgiveness
Things
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
- Ausonius
Learn
How
Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.
- Benjamin Clementine
Tougher
Lapse
I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
- Hale Irwin
Forgiveness
Sure
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
- Bernard Meltzer
Men
Them
You just have to forgive them for being men.
- Heather Locklear
Will
His
Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.
- Heinrich Heine
Too Late
However
It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the Savior, you can repent and plead for forgiveness. There is someone you can forgive. There is someone you can thank. There is someone you can serve and lift. You can do it wherever you are and however alone and deserted you may feel.
- Henry B. Eyring
Weaknesses
Except
I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.
- Herb Kelleher
Woman
Behind
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!
- Brody Jenner
Mind
Settled
The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
- Ingrid Betancourt
I Think
Haunt
A lot of people, when they say 'forgive and forget,' they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they don't haunt you or handicap you or kill you.
- Ishmael Beah
Positive
Hating
Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
- Camryn Manheim
Amazing
Most
It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.
- Carrie Fisher
Forgiveness
Will
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
- Catherine the Great
Belong
Them
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.
- James Hilton
Forgiveness
Living
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
- Chaim Herzog
Happy
Very
I am someone who can't hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don't carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that's the only way to be happy and peaceful.
- Deepika Padukone
Remember
Still
You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.
- Delta Burke
Offence
Than
'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
- James Thomson
How
Forgiven
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
- Dolores Huerta
Through
Miss
If you miss something in the theater, you are working through it; you'll get it tomorrow. It's easy to forgive yourself in the theater. On television, you do one shot. All you've done rehearsal-wise is be blocked. There is all this pressure to get it right then.
- Donna Lynne Champlin
Needed
Forgiven
He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all.
- Jennifer Grant
Been
Forgiven
When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.
- Jennifer O'Neill
Yourself
Deal
You can forgive yourself a great deal.
- Eddie Albert
Down
Sign
People suit their star sign. If someone is annoying me over and over, and I know they're a Sagittarius, say, I'm more likely to forgive them. It comes down to my need for structure as a way of finding my bearings with people.
- Jessie Cave
Purpose
Drama
Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis?
- Edward Zwick
Forgiveness
Never
God forgive you, but I never can.
- Elizabeth I
Winning
Habit
You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
- Kate Winslet
Tell
Through
The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live - live a complete life - live all our life.
- Emile Zola
Forgiveness
Before
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
- Emma Goldman
Rather
Another
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
- Emma Goldman
Learning
Am
I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.
- Kenny Loggins
Screen
Mic
I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.
- Ethan Hawke
Learn
Church
The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.
- Eugene H. Peterson
Work
Forget
Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
- Ford Frick
Forgiveness
Always
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
- Lana Turner
Play
Offense
A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
- Laurel Lea
Nature
Most
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
- Laurence Sterne
Love
Forgiveness
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor
Love
Thankful
Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.
- Garrison Keillor
Never
Sold
If I sold something, and it didn't perform, I'd never forgive myself.
- Len Buckeridge
Will
Fail
God will not forgive us if we fail.
- Leonid I. Brezhnev
Forgiveness
Those
Forgive those who have hurt you.
- Les Brown
Think
Other
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.'
- Lesley Gore
Suffering
Cut
My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. 'Forgive me Lord.' For what, I didn't know.
- Gene Wilder
Get
Even
Forgive your enemies, but first get even.
- Lester Cole
Horror
Shock
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
- Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiveness
Always
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
Fear
Real
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.
- Plato
Been
Violated
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.
- Miroslav Volf
Writing
Bad
You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is bad.
- Moran Atias
Mistake
Learn
I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.
- Rafael Palmeiro
Doing
Lord
As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I'm a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you're supposed to be doing.
- Mr. T
Strength
Father
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.
- Mandy Patinkin
Deep
Shame
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.
- Sean Brady
Will
Confederacy
There is something deeply disturbing about a popular culture that will not forgive the sins of the Confederacy seven generations past but celebrates the teachings and legacies of Che Guevara, Mao Zhe-Dong, and Jeremy Wright.
- Tom Tancredo
Love
Than
It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.
- Regina Brett
Most
Very
I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.
- Tory Burch
Benefits
Ordered
I have published a proclamation: 'Forgive us our transgressions as we forgive those who transgress against us.' I have ordered all citizens to return to their parishes to enjoy the benefits of this general amnesty.
- Toussaint Louverture
Other
Very
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.
- Tove Jansson
Idea
Tortured
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
- Richard Dawkins
Doing
TV
The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I know the Lord is like, 'Sherri what are you doing?' but I know I can go back and get on my knees and say, 'Lord forgive me.' I know he will never leave me nor forsake me. The wonderful thing is He answers my prayers in spite of me.
- Sherri Shepherd
Mom
Dad
I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.
- Nikki Sixx
Release
Sly
May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again!
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Maybe
Been
I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.
- Mary J. Blige
Me
Slow
I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.
- Spike Jonze
Over
Genuinely
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
- Orlando Aloysius Battista
Forgiveness
Always
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Forgiveness
Think
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
- Robert Frost
Kind
Will
I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!
- Paloma Faith
Lie
Will
It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
- Stephen Leacock
Writing
Me
Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
- Wallis Simpson
Incredible
Sort
Johnny Knoxville has such an incredible humanity to him when you meet him. He's so warm and so funny, and he can sort of get into trouble and you sort of forgive him immediately.
- Max Winkler
Cruelty
Punish
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
- Maximilien Robespierre
Rather
Ill
Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.
- Meir Soloveichik
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