Quotation Explorer - 'Forgiven'

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends. - Charles de Gaulle
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on. - Gordon Atkinson
It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer - Robin Hobb
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. - Thomas Fuller
If I've done anything I'm sorry for, I'm willing to be forgiven.
A forgiven Christian is a forgiving Christian. - Jim George
We may not have the power to move mountains, but if we have the power to take someone's hand and named them loved and forgiven we have power enough. - Dianne Astle
Maybe I've forgiven him, but I just haven't forgotten - C.C. Hunter
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? - Dolores Huerta
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. - Walt Whitman
You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone. - John Green
I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven. - Rob Thurman
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all. - Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The one who realizes the mistake, seeks forgiveness and searches for kindness, must be forgiven. - M.F. Moonzajer
There is hope for the soul that sin; to be forgiven by the Righteous One. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others. - Lauryn Hill
You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you. - Max Lucado
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. - Albert Camus
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. - Aesop
To be a follower of Christ and not just a fan means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. - Shannon L. Alder
Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever. - Coco Chanel
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
The idea that sins can be forgiven is at the root of mankind's problems. Everyone pays...sooner or later. - Sola Kosoko
We who burrow in filth every day may be forgiven perhaps the one sin that ends all sins. - Vladimir Nabokov
When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven. - Debasish Mridha
And she had pushed, or she hadn't. The result was all the same. There had been no forgiveness for her. But she'd been so very young. And how was it possible, how could parents do this? How could she not have been forgiven? - Lauren Groff
I've never heard anyone say "I wish I hadn't forgiven. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person can make me denounce my past. It made me who I am today, and the choices I make from this moment on are what will ultimately define me. - Julie-Anne
In a real love, mistakes are not consider because they are forgiven and forgotten. - Daouda Dolley
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. - C.S. Lewis
A second on the tongue is a lifetime in the heart. What you say can be forgiven, but never forgotten. - Stacey Strobel
At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss. - Brennan Manning
Let us remember that we need to forgive to be forgiven. - James E. Faust
Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. - Marlene Dietrich
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. - Henri J.M. Nouwen
I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there's no one I can turn to with this love. - Morrissey
The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person on earth can make me denounce my past. It's what made me who I am today. - Julie-Anne
To ask to be forgiven is in part to acknowledge that the attitude displayed in our actions was such as might properly be resented and in part to repudiate that attitude for the future; and to forgive is to accept the repudiation and to forswear the resentment. - Peter Frederick Strawson
The past, has been erased; the present, forgiven; and the future, redeemed. - Anthony Liccione
America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. - Oscar Wilde
Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's. - Linda Berdoll
if it seems you can't forgive remember how much you've been forgiven - Alfred Torre
That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community Chuck Palahniuk - Chuck Palahniuk in interview with TMO
Apologizing is different from begging, it doesn't change your status, go ahead and get on your knees, spill tears if you got it, for the person you offended, if at all you had a place in their hearts, you'll be totally forgiven and accepted. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don’t feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they’re stuck right where they started: Guilty. - Geoffrey Wood
What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?
You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead. - Santosh Kalwar
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven. - Ambrose Bierce
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths they tread upon the fools instead. - G.R. Elton
Sometimes the hardest thing is admitting you were wrong. It’s hard to say you need to be forgiven. - Jane Casey
You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymore, even if you're encouraged to do so, even if you remember you were once brutally broken because of them... you just move on, let go, let them be and let yourself be... - Sanhita Baruah
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money. - RuPaul
The person who has trust in divine justice is neither upset when treated unfairly, nor seeks his justice; on the contrary, he accepts the false accusations as if they were true, and does not try to convince others that he has been slandered; instead he asks to be forgiven... - Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain
The forgiveness of God flows through me and because I am forgiven, I can forgive. - Patience Johnson
The sins of my sex... A woman who is ugly is pitiable, but a man who is ugly is forgiven. - Michelle Franklin
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