forgive quotes

Then came Peter to him, and said,Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,Until seven times: but,Until seventy times seven.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Mattthew18:21^2.

Then said Jesus,Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke 23:34.

Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live.

- Robert Browning
  La Saisiaz, prologue.

Wilt thou forgive that sin, where I begun, Which is my sin, though it was done before? Wilt thou forgive those sins through which I run And do them still, though still I do deplore? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.

-John Donne
c.1623  'Hymn to God the Father'.

Forgive,O Lord, my little jokes onThee And I'll forgiveThy great big one on me.

- Robert Lee Frost
  'The Preacher', complete poem.

Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son me  tier. God will forgive me. It is His trade.

- Heinrich Heine
   Attributed, on his deathbed.

I said,'Forgive me, sir,'and plucked the cigar out of his mouth. By the time I got back to my camera, he looked so belligerent he could have devoured me. It was at that instant that I took the photograph. The silence was deafening.

-Yousuf Karsh
  Recalling how he snapped the celebrated 'bulldog' photograph of Sir Winston Churchill in the Speaker's Chambers, House of Commons, Ottawa, on 30 Dec1941. Karsh:  A Fifty-Year Retrospective.

At distance I forgive thee, go with that.

-John Milton
Samson  Agonistes, l.954.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

- Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism, l.525.

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret†the only wisdom ever to be attained.

- Hugh Prather
  The Quiet Answer.

This is the day of atonement; but do my people forgive me? If a cloud knew loneliness and fear,Iwould be thatcloud.

- Adrienne Cecile Rich
  Your Native Land,Your Life,'Yom Kippur,1984'.

Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks isgood, and to forgive.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne
  Poems and Ballads (2nd edn),'AveAtqueVale', stanza17.

Forgive the hero, you who would have died Gladly with all you knew; he rode that tide To Ararat; all men are Noah's sons.

- Richard Wilbur
  Ceremony and Other Poems,'Still, Citizen Sparrow'.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Lord Illingworth. AWoman of No Importance, act 2.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Lady Caroline. AWoman of No Importance, act 2.

I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.

- Boris Yeltsin
  On his retirement. In the Observer, 2 Jan.