William Boyd Quotes

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

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

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

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Good people are always forgiving. They close an eye to one's failings.

God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

We almost always forgive those we understand.

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.

We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

I always forgave my students, like Jesus.

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

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

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.