In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7.
Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.Hillary Clinton
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Robert Frost
Definition
Webster's 1913 Dictionary For`give´
v. t.
1.To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
[imp. Forgave ; p. p. Forgiven ; p. pr. & vb. n. Forgiving]
To them that list the world's gay shows I leave, And to great ones such folly do forgive.
- Spenser.2.To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; - said in reference to the act forgiven.
And their sins should be forgiven them.
- Mark iv. 12.
He forgive injures so readily that he might be said to invite them.
- Macaulay.3.To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; - said of the person offending.
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
- Luke xxiii. 34.
I as free forgive you, as I would be forgiven.
- Shak.WordNet Dictionary
Verb
1. forgive - stop blaming or grant forgiveness; "I forgave him his infidelity"; "She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday"
2.forgive - absolve from payment; "I forgive you your debt"
Related Words
abolish, absolve, acquit, allow, amnesty, cancel, condone, consign to oblivion, decontaminate, delete, destigmatize, discharge, dismiss, dispense from, disregard, erase, exculpate, exempt, exempt from, forbear, forgive and forget, free, give absolution, give quarter, grant amnesty to, grant forgiveness, grant immunity, grant remission, have mercy upon, have pity, ignore, indulge, justify, let go, let off, let up on, make allowances for, melt, nonpros, nullify, obliterate, overlook, pardon, pass over, purge, quash the charge, relax, release, relent, remit, reprieve, set free, shrive, spare, take pity on, thaw, vindicate, void, waive, whitewash, withdraw the charge
Forgiveness Quotes
I loathe ...drug dealers and pushers. I loathe and despise what they do to kids...I hate their cruelty and viciousness. I know maybe I should find a place in my heart to forgive them, God, but I can't. I just can't..
Sister Mary Rose, President of Covenant House
I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I do and I have done it and God forgives me for it.
Jimmy Carter, Playboy.
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives."
Lawana Blackwell
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.
Louise Hay
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, Therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; Therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
Reinhold Niebuhr
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
Franklin P. Adams
It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves."
Christian D. Larson
Were it illegal to say "I'm sorry, please forgive me," Gladly an outlaw I would be, To apologize anyway.
FH, Cordula's Web.
We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.
Louise Hay
Good to forgive, Best to forget.
Robert Browning
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honoré de Balzac
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Sir Francis Bacon
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
Elbert Hubbard
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which, despite their best intentions, people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And he invites us all to forgive each other."
Lewis B. Smedes
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Ausonius
Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
Carolyn Osiek
Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged deep. And we must expect some lapses...some people seem to manage to finish off forgiving in one swoop of the heart. But when they do, you can bet they are forgiving flesh wounds. Deeper cuts take more time and can use a second coat.
Lewis B. Smedes
Without forgiveness, there’s no future.
Desmond Tutu
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him.
Benjamin Franklin
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott
As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.
Isabelle Holland
Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame--and pain--in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairness...But it does allow relationships to start over. In that way, said Solzhenitsyn, we differ from all animals. It is not our capacity to think that makes us different, but our capacity to repent, and to forgive."
Old Chinese Proverb
You don't have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement."
Dan Fallon
It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness--a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim's family has forgiven him. And there can be forgiveness without pardon. In 1986, Michael Saward, a well-known Anglican evangelical, answered the door of his London vicarage. The three men who stood in his doorway pounded Saward over the head with a cricket bat, fracturing his skull. Then they broke into the vicarage, raped Saward's daughter, and beat up her boyfriend. The three were quickly arrested, and in a television interview shortly afterward, a badly battered Saward touched the British nation by publicly forgiving his assailants. But when the men were sentenced to prison terms of three to five years, Saward frankly criticized the sentences as too lenient."
Robert D. Enright
Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Lord Chesterfield
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean P.F.Richter
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boese
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control...to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare."
Carol Luebering
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
Dolores Huerta
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart . . . Forgiveness saves expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More
It is potentially dangerous if pastoral counselors insist on a client's withholding forgiveness until the other repents. We can easily imagine a devastated client who is trapped in bitterness or even hatred because of the legalistic requirement that the other must repent. The client's psychological well-being is now dependent on the other's response.George Herbert
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.William Blake
In a way, forgiving is only for the brave. It is for those people who are willing to confront their pain, accept themselves as permanently changed, and make difficult choices. Countless individuals are satisfied to go on resenting and hating people who wrong them. They stew in their own inner poisons and even contaminate those around them. Forgivers, on the other hand, are not content to be stuck in a quagmire. They reject the possibility that the rest of their lives will be determined by the unjust and injurious acts of another person.
Gordon Dalbey
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head on. If I can feel outrage at the injustice I have suffered, can recognize my persecution as such, and can acknowledge and hate my persecutor for what he or she has done, only then will the way to forgiveness be open to me.
Alice Miller, For Your Own Good
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Maria Edgeworth
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
Lance Morrow
You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
Author Unknown
Sometimes choices are made in the name of forgiveness while what is occurring isn't forgiveness at all. It is important not to confuse being forgiving with denying your own feelings, needs, and desires. Forgiving doesn't mean being passive and staying in a job or a relationship that clearly doesn't work for you or is abusive. It is important that you are clear about your boundaries. What is acceptable for you? If you are willing to allow unacceptable behavior again and again in the name of 'forgiveness,' you are more than likely using 'forgiveness' as an excuse not to take responsibility for taking care of yourself or as a way to avoid making changes."
Robin Casarjian
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
Stuart's Law of Retroaction
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Philip Yancey
Home is where hearts open and forgiveness and acceptance are the rule.
Kall
Ask for divine help in your struggle to forgive. The God of the Judeo-Christian tradition has an ancient reputation for compassion and mercy. Try praying FOR your enemy. Don't just ask for a change in that person's heart or behavior; really pray FOR him or her. You may find it hard to find words for such a prayer, but words are not necessary to the God who knows your mind and heart. Just stand before God with that person at your side, and let God's love wash over both of you until it penetrates your heart."Joan Borysenko
Forgiveness by Ashley DickersonAdrift in a sea of sadness lost in my thoughts Jokes can be taken so harsh when meant to be taken lightly
A slip of the tongue is all it takes and suddenly you're alone boxed in a world of fears a world of tears
Cruelty is it's game life it's name ever changing, rapidly sweeping you along like a roller coaster you can't stop and as you spin wildly spin out of control scenes from earlier on this ride of life flash through your mind
The walls are closing in The room begins to spin you fall to your knees and beg for it to stop you beg and plead for forgiveness knowing that you were wrong
You've been to bossy, said too much, you say it will never happen again and you know that you'll do anything in your power to keep it from happening again you love these people and can't fight like this with them so you plead for forgiveness.
Forgiveness
AnonThou, I long to kiss you sweetly,
and press my lips to yours
you deny me all I'm worthy
and your closing all your doors.
I can't help but think I'm sorry
and that I have done you wrong
but I need to know you love me,
that you've loved me all along.
Can't you see that I still need you
that I long to feel your touch
I am dying here without you
cause I'm loving you that much!
Please won't you forgive me?
I'm needing you that bad
I'm sick and tired of crying
but I lost you, now I'm sad.
I should say I'm sorry
that I love you and I need you
but will that change the way you feel,
will that change the things you do?
I still long for loving,
all the great things that you are
knowing you'll forever be,
my forever, shining star!
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