Mary McCarthy Quotes

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

Forgive what you can't excuse.

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

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.

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

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.

Forgive everyone everything.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

I think there are different levels of forgiveness.

I could forgive anybody.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

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.

And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

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

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

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.

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.

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

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.