Forgiveness Quotes - Page 17

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

If you feel "stuck" today, you may want to examine what you're holding on to. Be willing let go of past disappointments by choosing forgiveness. Who hurt you? Who wronged you? Release it to God. Do you need to forgive yourself? Do you need to receive God's forgiveness? Let go of the past so you can overcome disappointments and experience the bright future God has in store for you! There is freedom in forgetting!

If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt.

Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

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.

The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off by every act of vengeance always takes its unhindered course. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain...Why do family feuds go on and on?...the reason is simple: no two people, no two families, ever weigh pain on the same scale.

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

You must ask for God's help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.