Forgiveness Quotes (836 Quotes)


    And We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them two but in truth and the hour is most surely coming, so turn away with kindly forgiveness.

    It is the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet, tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes the place of the riotous blood of youth. I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays and the soft, tender, gentle memories that come with them, the dear images from the whole of my long, happy lifeand over all the Divine Truth, softening, reconciling, forgiving My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.







    All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.

    There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.

    We must not forget but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in Bosnia.


    If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.


    We had the mercy rule in effect for nine-inning games the whole series. Five games in four days, if either team's up by 10, why waste pitching for the next couple innings.

    The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.

    It shall be no crime in the weak, nor in the sick, nor in those who do not find what they should spend (to stay behind), so long as they are sincere to Allah and His Apostle there is no way (to blame) against the doers of good and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful Nor in those who when they came to you that you might carry them, you said I cannot find that on which to carry you they went back while their eyes overflowed with tears on account of grief for not finding that which they should spend.


    And whoever is patient and forgiving, these most surely are actions due to courage.


    The holders back from among the believers, not having any injury, and those who strive hard in Allah's way with their property and their persons are not equal Allah has made the strivers with their property and their persons to excel the holders back a (high) degree, and to each (class) Allah has promised good and Allah shall grant to the strivers above the holders back a mighty reward (High) degrees from Him and protection and mercy, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.


    Surely We offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to be unfaithful to it and feared from it, and man has turned unfaithful to it surely he is unjust, ignorant So Allah will chastise the hypocritical men and the hypocritical women and the polytheistic men and the polytheistic women, and Allah will turn (mercifully) to the believing women, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

    Most surely in this is a message to a people who serve And We have hot sent you but as a mercy to the worlds.


    Surely We revealed it on a blessed night surely We are ever warning-- Therein every wise affair is made distinct, A command from Us surely We are the senders (of apostles), A mercy from your Lord, surely He is the Hearing, the Knowing, The Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, if you would be sure.



    And if Allah should afflict you with harm, then there is none to remove it but He and if He intends good to you there is none to repel His grace He brings it to whom He pleases of His servants and He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.

    And whoever among you has not within his power ampleness of means to marry free believing women, then (he may marry) of those whom your right hands possess from among your believing maidens and Allah knows best your faith you are (sprung) the one from the other so marry them with the permission of their masters, and give them their dowries justly, they being chaste, not fornicating, nor receiving paramours and when they are taken in marriage, then if they are guilty of indecency, they shall suffer half the punishment which is (inflicted) upon free women. This is for him among you who fears falling into evil and that you abstain is better for you, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.





    Kind speech and forgiveness is better than charity followed by injury and Allah is Self-sufficient, Forbearing.

    The mother is everythingshe is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.


    For 45 minutes of basketball, you have two teams that aren't going to give in to each other. It was one of those games where you just hate to see anyone lose. Whenever we play Mount Mercy, it's that type of game. Our teams compete like that.

    I told the jury if they couldn't show mercy for John Moxley, then they could show mercy for themselves, that it would make them better people. By showing mercy, they had a quality John Moxley didn't.




    As humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.



    That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.



    My impression is the US government shares some of those feelings about Microsoft. The fact that it is closed source and they are at the mercy of such a large and dominant vendor such as Microsoft would seem to be a national security risk.


    Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by which to determine what we are to be and to do and what we are to rid ourselves of. All the cardinal virtues, therefore, carry their own intrinsic as well as outward reward. A merciful man does do good to his own soul.



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