Forgiving Quotes - Page 35

The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has ‘a forgiving disposition’ (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change. You can be helped. You can be made whole—whatever the problem.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.

We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

I'm aware the fans in the U.S. can be less forgiving...I'll just have to do my best to please them.

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.

We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.

A-tone-ment-its a chance to fix the unfixable and to start all over again. It begins when you forgive yourself for all you've done wrong, and forgive others for all they've done to you. Your mistakes aren't mistakes anymore, they're just things that make you stronger.

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love.

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.

Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary stage that we are now growing out of? Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself.

Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

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

This is practically the language used to fallen women, and chiefly by their own sex: "God may forgive you, but we never can!" - a declaration which, however common, in spirit if not in substance, is, when one comes to analyse it, unparalleled in its arrogance of blasphemy. That for a single offence, however grave, a whole life should be blasted, is a doctrine repugnant even to Nature's own dealings in the visible world.

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

I grew up on network sitcoms. If those are gone when I'm 65 years old, I would never forgive myself for not stepping up to that plate, as often as possible. I'm already bummed out that DVDs are dying off because, in my 20s, those were a huge thing.

Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed.

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.