Quotes about forgiveness
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 self forgiving
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self. George Sand
forgiveness good-life enjoy-life
Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it. Jim Henson
forgiveness revenge sweetest
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. Jerome Isaac Friedman
forgiveness revenge savages
Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.
forgiveness needs sometimes
Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven. Jennifer McMahon
forgiveness action happened
Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you. Jennifer O'Neill
forgiveness misunderstood individual
Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.
forgiveness problem recognizing
Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution. James A. Baldwin
forgiveness encouragement pain
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
forgiveness hate racism
As long as you hate, there will be people to hate. George Harrison
forgiveness mean dark
Forgiveness is not a moral issue. It is an energy dynamic... Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience. When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you. When you choose not to forgive, it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome sunglasses that distort everything, and it is you who are forced every day to look at life through those contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them. Gary Zukav
forgiveness responsibility spirit
When you assume responsibility for what you experience and share what you experience in a spirit of companionship, that is the same as forgiveness. When you hold someone responsible for what you experience, you lose power.
forgiveness pain mistake
Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. We are prone to make mistakes that cause confusion, inflict pain, and miscommunicate our intentions ... The only choice we have is to reconcile ourselves to our own flaws and the flaws of other people, or withdraw from the community. Christina Baldwin
forgiveness people admitting
Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.
forgiveness revenge anger
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. Francis Bacon
forgiveness revenge anger
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
forgiveness unforgivable-sin refusal
The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon. George Santayana
forgiveness fall people
If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you. Fyodor Dostoevsky
forgiveness forgiving humans
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. Franklin P. Adams
forgiveness too-much judgment
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much. George Eliot
forgiveness believe heart
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Frank Knox
forgiveness thinking achievement
I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement. Faith Baldwin
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.
forgiveness wall creating
When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others. Jean Vanier