Forgiveness Quotes - Page 35

Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift

To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point of all goodness. It comes bringing with it, if not the freshness of innocence, yet a glow of inspiration that nerves feeble hands for hard tasks, a fire of hope that lights anew the old high ideal, so that it stands before the eye in clear relief, beckoning to make it out on its own.

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you.

Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.

That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long while, Being but a part of ancient ceremony Notorious, till all my priceless things Are but a post the passing dogs defile.

Forgiveness works the miracle of change.

She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

All forgiveness is self forgiveness.

But with morning cool repentance came.

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.

Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.

Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.