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.
- Henry Ward Beecher
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
- Emo Philips
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.
- Gerald R. Ford
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
- Bernard Meltzer
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
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.
- Henry Ward Beecher
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.
- Gerald R. Ford
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
- Quentin Crisp
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins
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