Values & Character: Forgiveness Quotes

"Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision"

Julian Bond, Activist

"I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years"

Mercedes McCambridge, Actress

"Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself"

Sri Chinmoy, Philosopher

"A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable"

Robert Fripp, Musician

"You lose a lot of time hating people"

Marian Anderson, Musician

"Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it"

Margaret Cho, Comedian

"I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people"

Marian Anderson, Musician

"The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven"

Robert Downey, Jr., Actor

"Can you really forgive if you can't forget?"

Sarah Jessica Parker, Actress

"If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person"

Janine Turner, Actress

"Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate, that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else"

Viola Davis, Actress

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

Julian Clary, Comedian

"Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven"

Kevyn Aucoin, Artist

"We did something this year that was not based on animosity"

Nikki Sixx, Musician

"Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another"

William Gurnall, Author

"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, Actress

"I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser"

Nikki Sixx, Musician

"Repentance is accepted remorse"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin"

William Gurnall, Author

"I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

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

Lauryn Hill, Musician

"I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore"

Davy Jones, Musician

"I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget"

Maria Edgeworth, Novelist

"No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike"

Boyd Rice, Artist

"All things can be forgiven if we can progress"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"Forgiveness is a form of the highest love"

Ma Jaya, Teacher

"I do not intend to prejudge the past"

William Whitelaw, Politician

"I'm happy to have had everything healed. We're fine"

Marla Maples, Actress

"You're supposed to remember, and still forgive"

Delta Burke, Actress

"I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people"

Darrell Hammond, Comedian

"It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds"

Ricardo Lagos, Politician

"And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake"

Walter Martin, Clergyman

"I don't think I will ever be able to forgive myself for what I have done"

Susan Smith, Criminal

"I am sorry for what has happened, and I know that I need some help"

Susan Smith, Criminal

"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, Musician

"You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it"

Don Young, Politician

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