Quotes about forgiveness
forgiveness grief hatred
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn. George W. Bush
forgiveness pride guarantees-that
To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend. Frederick Buechner
forgiveness peace ignorance
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
forgiveness son men
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. Euripides
forgiveness men silence
If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. Francis Beaumont
forgiveness revenge men
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Francis Bacon
forgiveness revenge anger
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
forgiveness revenge anger
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
forgiveness mistake starting-over
Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again. Ernest Holmes
forgiveness kids acting
Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable. Erma Bombeck
forgiveness eye sight
Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills. Florence Scovel Shinn
forgiveness education teacher
The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller
forgiveness forgiving hyenas
But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive. Kristan Higgins
forgiveness heart giving
Forgiveness is an inner correction that lightens the heart. It is for our peace of mind first. Being at peace, we will now have peace to give to others, and this is the most permanent and valuable gift we can possibly give.
forgiveness letting-go practice
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.
forgiveness people forgiving
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. J. K. Rowling
forgiveness peace apology
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. Grace Hopper
forgiveness bridges heaven
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. George Herbert
forgiveness pardon offenders
The offender never pardons.
forgiveness jesus mean
The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross. Jerry Bridges
forgiveness brother love-is
For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother. Jeanne Moreau
forgiveness heart sorrow
And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
forgiveness war eye
There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead...
forgiveness mistake errors
Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.
forgiveness long pardon
We pardon as long as we love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
forgiveness forgiving injury
Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury. Francis Quarles
forgiveness
I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver. Hillary Clinton
forgiveness forgiving
When women love us they forgive everything. Honore de Balzac
forgiveness pedestal lovers
No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
forgiveness bears debtors
Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.
forgiveness persons
Forgiveness is not about the other person or what they did. Forgiveness is for YOU and about YOU. Iyanla Vanzant
forgiveness heart forgiving
Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.
forgiveness anger angry-man
Don't let the sun go down on me. Elton John