Best Forgiveness Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Any time there is 'un-forgiveness' between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don't understand... there is suffering.”

“What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.”

“We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.”

“Prison reform, peace, and a presidential pardon - just a portion of Kushner's portfolio.”

“I try to, pardon the expression, stay with my feet on the ground.”

“I don't mind giving 5,000 pardons a day.”

“We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.”

“Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.”

“The offender never pardons.”

“Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.”

“I've made $50 million over the years as a movie star, if you'll pardon the expression, and I've given most of it to the bookies.”

“If you get under water, you're at the mercy of our team coming in and getting us before we get another one on the head, and another one on the head, and another one. Or, we have to be able to handle it, and that's where our trainer and our coaches and our people who help us stay fit come into play, the other part of the team.”

“Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.”

“In this industry, you have to have passion. It's tough; there's no mercy. But I just love cars - I love to bring a new car to market. And every time I do this, it gets a little easier.”

“We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.”

“Lagan' was not a patriotic film. It was more of a mercy petition from our end.”

“As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.”

“When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.”

“I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.”

“Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.”

“Music and creative stuff are such weird things that you kind of just have to be at the mercy of wherever where it may take you.”

“When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling.”

“I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at the mercy of whatever talent you have.”

“'Mercy,' I love conceptually because I feel like you can either think about it as if it were a girl - which it sounds like it could be about a girl - but I like to picture it as 'pleading for mercy for my career' type of thing.”

“Most people call me Mercy. I like it.”

“A lot of people need technology to survive. And if you're renting it and you don't own it or have control over it, you're at the mercy of whoever does.”

“I have pretty much always been about - if I write that song or whatever, it is all for Mercy Me. Anything I want to do is for Mercy Me.”

“One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.”

“Actors are at the mercy of roles that are offered.”

“The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.”

“Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.”

“We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.”

“I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.”

“A God all mercy is a God unjust.”

“In the end, granting mercy comes down to just two people. For the recipient, the pardon is freedom. For the politician, the pardon can mean - not surprisingly - political gain.”

“It is healthy to say, 'Yes, I am a sinner,' and to recognise that this should lead us to turn to God full of confidence in his love and mercy.”

“Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.”

“We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.”

“I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.”

“If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.”

“If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.”

“The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.”

“The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.”

“I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.”

“I didn't mind going to any length to make people believe that a puny hero had me at his mercy.”

“I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.”

“Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.”

“People forget that the same man who did 'Star 80' and 'All that Jazz' also did 'Pardon Me Miss But I've Never Been Kissed.'”

“I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one.”

“Medieval kings left the job of kindness to their queens. If the queen begged for someone not to be beheaded, the king could show mercy without losing face.”

“Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.”

“He who pardons easily invites offense.”

“My TV stays locked at 'SportsCenter.' That and 'Pardon the Interruption.'”

“I knew that my love for the Sisters of Mercy, Lords of the New Church and that kind of stuff, was never going to lend itself well to a direct interpretation in Black Veil Brides.”

“There's no place for Depeche Mode and the Sisters of Mercy in the music I make with my band. If I was a fan, I wouldn't want to hear that on a Black Veil Brides record. It was important for me and for the integrity of the band not to tarnish it.”

“If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.”

“I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.”

“Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.”

“Where there is injury let me sow pardon.”

“I'm so grateful for just the inherent mercy of life.”

“When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.”

“Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.”

“This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.”

“In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time.”

“The second that MercyMe stopped being my identity, instead of quitting, I started falling back in love with it.”

“When I am in the ring, all I think about is knocking my opponent's head off, getting him out of there. Hurting him. Putting pain to him. I will have no mercy. I will have no pity.”

“Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!”

“I lost feeling for about five seconds. Everything. Head to toe. Times ten. You just sit there in no control. I was in no control, I was at a higher power's mercy. You're just sitting there, all of a sudden your body feels like it weighs like two million pounds.”

“When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.”

“In the harsh and violent Middle East surrounding us, there is no mercy for the weak. Only the strong survive!”

“I've graced almost every stage in N.Y., from Webster Hall to Gramercy Theater to Best Buy.”

“My whole life, I've loved '80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode.”

“Even the gods pardon someone who makes a mistake.”

“If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.”

“When you're underwater getting pounded, you are at the mercy of the ocean.”

“A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.”

“When you look at the Nixon pardon, the short-term gain would have been never to pardon him.”

“I feel like God's given me a gift in running and the opportunity to use running as a platform to help highlight the work of the Love Mercy Foundation in northern Uganda.”

“I believe in forgiveness.”

“I sinned daily, and Jesus still loves me. It's all washed, and if the Lord doesn't judge me and it's all forgiven, then no other man, woman, animal - anything, I don't know - can judge me!”

“My son can be as open as he wants with me, but he cannot forget I am his mother and that all will not be forgiven.”

“There's nothing Trump can do that won't be forgiven.”

“I think only now am I at the age where I've forgiven the past enough to say, 'You know what? Slavery was there. Let's talk about it in ways that will help us face tomorrow.”

“I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.”

“I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real world because they tell everyone their performance is 'just a show.' And so, people say, 'Oh, it's OK then. We don't care. He's not really a bad person.' It's not just a show for me. It's my life.”

“I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.”

“I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.”

“I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.”

“I personally don't think Stassi and I will ever be good friends again. When I needed her the most she wasn't there for me and that's something I've forgiven her for but will never forget.”

“Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.”

“Not many people know that I turned down my husband's first directorial, the Kannada film 'Pallavi Anupallavi,' something he still hasn't forgiven me for.”

“I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.”

“I made a very poor decision in my first marriage. I know God's forgiven me.”

“Now that I'm a father, I've forgiven my parents.”

“I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?”

“I can say I have forgiven my captors. That being said, I never want to see them again. I'm not OK with they did to me.”

“I have forgiven and forgotten all those who wronged me.”

“I have forgiven those who were persecuting me.”

“She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that.”

“Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.”