Quotes about Forgiveness
All but Death, can be Adjusted
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, Therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; Therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me
Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves.
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
All but Death, can be Adjusted
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, Therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; Therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me
Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves.
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
God will forgive me. It's his job.
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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.
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.