People can forgive each other.
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has ‘a forgiving disposition’ (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change. You can be helped. You can be made whole—whatever the problem.
Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?
To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
How do children learn to correct their mistakes? By watching how you correct yours. How do children learn to overcome their failures? By watching how you overcome yours. How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness? By watching you forgive yourself.
The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.
He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Who understands much, forgives much.
It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail. . . Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.
You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.
The first and often only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness. . . When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.
I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!
This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.
You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.