I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.
Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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.
You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
You just have to forgive them for being men.
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
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.
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
As a human being, it's in your nature, when somebody says something about you negatively, to defend yourself and lash back. That's what we all have to learn not to do. You have to forgive a person. And when you forgive a person, you have to forgive yourself.
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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.
I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.
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.
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.
I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.
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.
Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.
