Quotes about forgive
forgiveness peace anger
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
forgiveness giving people
If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you know it we become violent and demanding and manipulative. It's so important that we keep forgiving one another - not once in a while, but every moment of life. Henri Nouwen
forgiveness names people
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.
forgiveness men forgiving
Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive? James Russell Lowell
forgiveness forgiving coward
A coward never forgives. Laurence Sterne
forgiveness exercise virtue
There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves, than those of moderation and the forgiveness of injuries.
forgiveness brave forgiving
Only the brave know how to forgive
forgiveness brave forgiving
The brave only know how to forgive.
forgiveness bravery forgiving
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
forgiveness love-is power-of-forgiveness
Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself. Gary Chapman
forgiveness victory
Forgiveness is the divinest of victories. Friedrich Schiller
forgiveness war alternatives
Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter. Franklin D. Roosevelt
forgiveness children one-day
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. George Foreman
forgiveness men judging
No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge. Lucan
forgiveness silly pride
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one. Lord Chesterfield
forgiveness choosing-to-love
Forgiveness is choosing to love. Mahatma Gandhi
forgiveness strong forgiving
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
forgiveness forgiving punishing-yourself
Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself. Louise Hay
forgive great hardest love realize
The hardest thing to do is forgive yourself. You can't realize how great God's love is. David Fisher
forgiveness peace attitude
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising. Maya Angelou
forgiveness love-is forgiving
To love is human, it is also human to forgive. Plautus
forgiveness men forgiving
Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. Khalil Gibran
forgiveness men snakes
Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take! Omar Khayyam
forgive forgiveness free joys quarrels seldom tender truest
The truest joys they seldom prove, Who free from quarrels live; 'Tis the most tender part of love, Each other to forgive
forgiveness embrace divine
There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth. Johann Kaspar Lavater
forgiveness distance forgiving
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it.
forgiveness eye practice
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
forgiveness mean thinking
Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and normal between you. Jimmy Carter
forgiveness spiritual peace
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat
forgiveness thinking forgiving
Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive." Norman Vincent Peale
forgiveness blood grace
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. Epictetus
forgiveness spiritual anger
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
forgive-me forgiving
You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you. Emily Bronte