Forgiveness Quotes - Page 33

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.

You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

Forgive yourself first. Let go of past hurts and direct your spirit to goodness and hope by having gratitude.

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

Forgiveness is not about the other person or what they did. Forgiveness is for YOU and about YOU.

God will pardon: That's His business.

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

Courage and clemency are equal virtues.

Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.

I could see peace instead of this.

It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains and will ever remain, so long as man retains unchanged the will to sin, or is intent upon committing it.

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

Jesus lived a life of peace, love, kindness and forgiveness, during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, may we all do our best to follow his example.

A man must learn to forgive himself.