Forgiveness Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

John Rowland

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

Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

Lester Cole

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 Lee

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Corrie Ten Boom

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Bill Cosby

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Jessica Lange

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

Jennifer O'Neill

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

Jennifer O'Neill

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

Julian Clary

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

Jennifer O'Neill

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

Ted Allen

You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.

Delta Burke

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

Sarah Jessica Parker

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.

James Thomson

I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.

Jim Bakker

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Janine Turner

You just have to forgive them for being men.

Heather Locklear

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Craig T. Nelson

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

Suzanne Somers

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

Lauryn Hill

Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.

Marvin Hagler

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

Patty Duke

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

Edward Albert

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

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

Jewel

Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting.

Peter Allen

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.

Jim Bakker

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

Lee Tergesen

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

Simon Cowell

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

Harriet Nelson

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

Emma Thompson

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

Eddie Albert

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

Billy Ray Cyrus

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

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Henry Ward Beecher

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

Edgar Watson Howe

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Honore de Balzac

We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves.

Darren L. Johnson

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Jean de la Bruyere

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.