It’s said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies – because you never know when you’ll have to work with them. – Lana Turner
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness. – Joseph J. Ellis
I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He’s always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life. – Lee Tergesen
Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you’re not hurting the person you hate. You’re hurting yourself. And that’s a healing. Actually, it’s a real healing, forgiveness. – Louis Zamperini
On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt. – Laura Schlessinger
I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility. – John Rowland
I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition. – Jean-Francois Cope
In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness. – John Edwards
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness. – Janine Turner
I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man. – Mahatma Gandhi
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. – Lewis B. Smedes
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. – Kevyn Aucoin
Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in. – Louise L. Hay
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. – Jessamyn West
In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation. – Kevin DeYoung
I believe the Scriptures teach that there’s a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell. – Kirk Cameron
A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers. – Robert Green Ingersoll
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. – Richard Rohr
The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption. – Rick Perry
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. – Robert Frost