Forgiving Quotes - Page 45

God is more eager to forgive us than we are to be forgiven.

As we pass through the trials of life, let us keep an eternal perspective, let us not complain, let us become even more prayerful, let us serve others, and let us forgive one another. As we do this, 'all things [will] work together for good to [us] that love God.'

Forgive, forget, learn the lesson and move forward!

Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will tease you with its magnificent beauty, so even if you don't forget, you can find a way to forgive. Ultimately, it keeps you coming back for more.

You have to forgive everybody. It's the best beauty treatment.

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.

I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.

Forgiveness. It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place.

I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess. - Han Solo

When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

Nature does not forgive.

If you love a person, you can forgive anything.

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors. Being superior to physical suffering, it sometimes chanced that they were superior to any consolation which the missionaries could offer; and the law to do as you would be done by fell with less persuasiveness on the ears of those who, for their part, did not care how they were done by, who loved their enemies after a new fashion, and came very near freely forgiving them all they did.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

Women are raised to be the nurturers and steadiers of rocked boats, to hold relationships in place as if our lives depended on it. But it shores up your own dignity and integrity if you're able to say, "There are a million things I love about you, and I want our relationship to continue. I forgive you 95 percent, but not this 5 percent."

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.