Thomas Fuller Quotes

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

I forgive very easily, and I suppose, in the same way, I expect to be forgiven very easily as well. I grew up with that.

When people do, or say, things we don't believe in, forgiveness can feel disgusting. But when you try to think of someone who isn't worthy of it, it's hard to find an example.

I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

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.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

I don't believe in writing people off.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.