Quotes about forgiveness
forgiveness nearest seems
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened. Giles Foden
forgiveness revenge may
Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity. Carrie Fisher
forgiveness enemy thankfulness
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him. Bill Vaughan
forgiveness character citizens
The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
forgiveness teamwork respect
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger. Bill Bradley
forgiveness peace anger
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Petrarch
forgiveness pardon-me pardon
I pardon him, as God shall pardon me. William Shakespeare
forgiveness sweet brother
What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves To wash it white as snow?
forgiveness forgive-and-forget forgiving
Pray you now, forget and forgive.
forgiveness giving people
People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we? David Rakoff
forgiveness hate men
To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways. Bryan Adams
forgiveness people forgiving
But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for. Chad Harbach
forgiveness stupidity forgiving
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him. Cesare Pavese
forgiveness time revenge
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. Charlotte Bronte
forgiveness strong hate
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.
forgiveness enemy forgiving
The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. Charles Caleb Colton
forgiveness forgiving done
May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it. Charles Dickens
forgiveness doe noble
There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries. Charles Simmons
forgiveness heart mean
We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us. Charles Stanley
forgiveness running home
When we stray from His presence, He longs for you to come back. He weeps that you are missing out on His love, protection and provision. He throws His arms open, runs toward you, gathers you up, and welcomes you home.
forgiveness blessed giving
To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven. Charles Spurgeon
forgiveness lying essence
We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.
forgiveness forgiving done
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. Alan Paton
forgiveness mistake past
It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
forgiveness forgiven has-beens
You have been forgiven, so act like it! Aiden Wilson Tozer
forgiveness boys guy
Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill. Cheryl Strayed
forgiveness revenge enemy
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior. Charlotte Lennox
forgiveness regret moving
Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on. Charlaine Harris
forgiveness forgiving forget
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget. Chaim Herzog
forgiveness hatred wish
Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else. Audre Lorde
forgiveness sorrow nerves
That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel...
forgiveness drinking eye
If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?
forgiveness sweet kindness
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.