Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffer

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
Ford Frick

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian Smith

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
Charles Williams

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
Tatum O'Neal

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.
Heinrich Heine

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

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.
Kingsley Amis

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 A. Battista

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
Bernard Baruch

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Laurence Stern

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
Horatio Nelson

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
Marianne Williamson

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

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