Forgiving Quotes - Page 47

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement, . . . by forgiving those who have offended us, . . . by rendering selfless service. . . .

Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all.

You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.

To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

Hopefully America will forgive me.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.

We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It's much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons.

As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.

The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans said that those who pass judgment on others are 'inexcusable.' The moment we judge someone else, he explained, we condemn ourselves, for none is without sin. Refusing to forgive is a grievous sin-one the Savior warned against.

Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive one another. There is a great need for this Christlike attribute in our families, in our marriages, in our wards and stakes, in our communities, and in our nations.

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the best parts. It didn't matter that he couldn't love me, that had nothing to do with it. But if I couldn't forgive him, then I could not love him, and that part of me was gone. And I found eventually that I wanted it back." ({Lord John, Drums of Autumn}

Forgiving is good for your health.

If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.

Forgiving is not easy. It is not cheap.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.