Prejudice is sinful. All blood flows red. And the most harmful and foolish kind of prejudice is prejudice against yourself. Every woman is your sister, and every woman needs her sisters. So try to give other women the courtesy of your compassion, respect, and forgiveness. Love yourself despite - and because of - your flaws.
— Jewell Parker Rhodes
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
— Jessica Lange
I'm a believer in forgiveness. I have worked with people who have been in gangs and now dedicate their lives to helping inner city kids. I've run offender services with teachings of responsibility, empathy and understanding of the victims at their heart. I've seen people change.
— Jess Phillips
One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.
— Jeffrey Bell
I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
— Jean-Francois Cope
My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
— Janine Turner
For the millions of Americans, like my family, who believe that there is a creator God who can be known personally, Christmas is a celebration of Jesus' offer of love and forgiveness for all people.
— James Lankford
If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.
— James E. Faust
The Way Of The Fist' is not quite a Shakespearian depiction of anger and revenge. This song was more my way of releasing all the pent up aggression I felt against some people who wronged me beyond the point of any kind of forgiveness or mercy.
— Ivan Moody
Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
— Ingrid Betancourt
For me, the healing process starts with graciousness and forgiveness.
— India Arie
As forces of hate in this country and worldwide try to pull Muslims and Christians apart, we are in desperate need of a unifying force that can bridge the widening gap of interfaith misunderstanding and mistrust. That force could be the message of love, peace, and forgiveness taught by Jesus and accepted by followers of both faiths.
— Ibrahim Hooper
Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.
— Hillary Clinton
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the Savior, you can repent and plead for forgiveness. There is someone you can forgive. There is someone you can thank. There is someone you can serve and lift. You can do it wherever you are and however alone and deserted you may feel.
— Henry B. Eyring
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
— Harlan Coben
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
— Jewel
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
— Jesse Jackson
Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.
— Jennifer O'Neill
So many people ask, 'How could you forgive your mother for the way you were raised?' It's really not forgiveness, in my opinion. It's acceptance. She's never going to be the sort of mother who wants to take care of me.
— Jeannette Walls
I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.
— Jayson Blair
The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
— Jane Fonda
What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?
— James Forman, Jr.
My parents are very good examples of Christians. They are big on forgiveness.
— James Acaster
The Queen has well-informed opinions of many of her bishops and likes those who are straightforward and intelligent. Both she and Prince Philip believe Christianity is as much about forgiveness as morality.
— Ingrid Seward
The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
— Immaculee Ilibagiza
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
— Ian Mcewan
I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
God will forgive me. It's his job.
— Heinrich Heine
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
— Hannah More
It's always best to ask for forgiveness if you feel that you made a mistake. And again, asking for forgiveness is not just saying the words 'I'm sorry'; it is also offering what you need to do.
— Grace Poe
I struggle with insecurities. I struggle with forgiveness. I struggle with letting someone go that did me dirty without vengeance, which is an evil thing.
— Jessie Reyez
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
Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
— Jean Paul
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
— Jane Austen
The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.
The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.
— Iyanla Vanzant
My husband was a serial adulterer, and there was nothing I could do about it: no questions I could ask him, no argument I could have with him, no explanation he could give me or pleas he could make for forgiveness.
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
— Indira Gandhi
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
— Igor Stravinsky
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
— Honore de Balzac
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.
Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
