Top Forgive Quotes
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
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
All Forgive Quotes
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips 
72% of people like this quote
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor 
71% of people like this quote
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 
68% of people like this quote
I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.
Lauryn Hill 
66% of people like this quote
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Hyman Rickover 
64% of people like this quote
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr. 
64% of people like this quote
And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.
Jim Bakker 
63% of people like this quote
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 
60% of people like this quote
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton 
60% of people like this quote
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Martin Luther King, Jr.John F. KennedyRobert Louis StevensonHonore De BalzacRobert FrostJosh BillingsWilliam BlakePierre CorneilleBryant H. McGillLord ChesterfieldPublilius SyrusJean de la Bruyere EuripidesJohn DrydenKarl Kraus
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