Quotes about forgive
forgiveness pain memories
Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free. Lewis B. Smedes
forgiveness hurt stupid
With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really as innocent as we felt when we were first hurt. And we do not usually have a gigantic monster to forgive; we have a weak, needy, and somewhat stupid human being. When you see your enemy and yourself in the weakness and silliness of the humanity you share, you will make the miracle of forgiving a little easier.
forgiveness running hurt
You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.
forgiveness hurt forgiving
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
forgiveness mean healing
Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people we forgive them, we must leave them free to respond to our good news however they are inclined. If the response is not what we hoped for, we can go home and enjoy our own healing in private.
forgiveness letting-go evil
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.
forgiveness heart cutting
Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged deep. And we must expect some lapses...some people seem to manage to finish off forgiving in one swoop of the heart. But when they do, you can bet they are forgiving flesh wounds. Deeper cuts take more time and can use a second coat.
forgiveness hurt people
Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And He invites us all to forgive each other.
forgiveness forgiving together
Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions. Joyce Brothers
forgiveness thinking rebel
The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation. Juan Manuel Santos
forgiveness secret forgiving
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. Josh Billings
forgiveness jobs men
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
forgiveness revenge vengeance
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
forgiveness feel-better forgiving
Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free. Karen Kingsbury
forgiveness forget enjoy
You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest. Judy Blume
forgiveness oil
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships. Josh McDowell
forgiveness compassion care
Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion. Joseph Conrad
forgiveness humility forgiving
Forgive thyself little, and others much. Leighton Meester
forgiveness mistake heart
A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself. Linda Sue Park
forgiveness forgiving position
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything. Leo Tolstoy
forgiven understood ifs
And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood. Gayle Forman
forgiveness law forgiving
Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel Lyndon B. Johnson
forgiveness law forgiving
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Louis Dudek
forgiveness memories wells
What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
forgiveness revenge feelings
Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies. Lord Chesterfield
forgiveness unforgivable-sin unforgiving
The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving. Malcolm Forbes
forgiveness scar score
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
forgiveness self skills
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. Mahatma Gandhi
forgive-me forgiving done
I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done. Gabrielle Zevin
forgiveness im-sorry hurt
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. Gilbert K. Chesterton
forgiveness adventure law
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. John Dryden
forgiveness doe done
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
forgiveness razors turn-the-other-cheek
Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it. John Lydon