Quotes about forgiven
forgiveness revenge forgiving
Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge. Karl Lagerfeld
forgiveness forgiving genius
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. Joyce Cary
forgiveness letting-go book
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. Oscar Wilde
forgiveness our-love overcoming
Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love. Paul Tillich
forgiveness hurt children
Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of the great "in spite of" that says: I forget although I remember. Without this kind of forgetting no human relationship can endure healthily. I don't refer to a solemn act of asking for and offering forgiveness. Such rituals as sometimes occur between parents and children, or friends, or man and wife, are often acts of moral arrogance on the one part and enforced humiliation on the other. But I speak of the lasting willingness to accept him who has hurt us.
forgiveness forgiving feels
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live. Madame de Stael
forgiveness forgiving
Who understands much, forgives much.
forgiveness understanding forgiving
Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving ...
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 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 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 easter mistake
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. Jessamyn West
forgiveness heart sin
Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous. Joseph Smith, Jr.
forgiveness journey needs
Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant. Neal A. Maxwell
forgiveness revenge men
In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path. Martin Luther King, Jr.
forgiveness attitude moving
Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?
forgiveness love-you unconditional-love
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
forgiveness worst-enemy evil
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
forgiveness eye teeth
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
forgiveness new-beginnings mean
Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.
forgiveness forgive-and-forget forgiving
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget. Maria Edgeworth
forgiveness mistake long
The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago. Princess Diana
forgiveness forgiving unhappy
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. Publilius Syrus
forgiveness forgiving forgotten
We forgive but not forgotten Nelson Mandela
forgiveness men glasses
Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.
forgiveness letting-go spiritual
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
forgiveness world capacity
Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves. Nhat Hanh
forgiveness peace practice
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
forgiveness letting-go heart
Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.
forgiveness im-sorry mean
Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so. Jodi Picoult
forgiveness lying forgiving
For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true living; Love scarce is love that never knows The sweetness of forgiving. John Greenleaf Whittier