I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.
I'm not a spiteful man, never been. I always forgive. The final decision isn't mine, but God's. God knows what He does.
Women can't forgive failure.
Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.
In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.
You can't forgive your sin. Only God can.
Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!
Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will tease you with its magnificent beauty, so even if you don't forget, you can find a way to forgive. Ultimately, it keeps you coming back for more.
Know that truth, forgiveness, and love can heal the world. Imagine if all of us could be truthful with ourselves, start forgiving everyone, and start loving everyone. We would no longer be selfish, gossiping would be over, and we would no longer judge one another. The world would become a place where all of us live in love.
A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.
When God forgives us for hitting Him with a club we should manage to put up with the pin pricks we get from our fellows.
We are chained to that which we do not forgive
I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.
Because God is a God of mercy and His mercy endures forever, you can trust that he will have mercy on you (See: 1 Chronicles 17:13). Therefore you can show mercy to your spouse by forgiving whenever he (she) does or says something that hurts or disturbs you.
I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.
There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.
Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive. "
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.