Regina Brett Quotes

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Forgive what you can't excuse.

We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.

I could forgive anybody.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

The noblest revenge is to forgive

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

I forgive everyone. There's no reason to hold anything against someone. Revenge is over with.

God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.

The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior, it's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know how to forgive. All we need to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.