Given Quotes - Page 12

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.

Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

The more you love, the more love you are given to love with.

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

Forgiveness doesn't mean that what that person did was right or that you even have to get back into a relationship with that person. Forgiveness simply releases the debt they owe you so that God can release the debt you owe Him. Ask the Lord to search your heart and show you if there is any unforgiveness blocking His blessing in your life. Ask Him to show you more about this gift of forgiveness so that you can walk in the freedom and victory He has for you today.

To forgive is human, to forget divine.

Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my God, for having outraged Thee by my sins. Pardon me, O holiness of my God, for having so long stained Thy sight's purity by my sins. Pardon me, O mercy of my God, for having despised so long Thy mercy's voice. In deep sorrow and contrition, I cast myself at Thy feet: Have mercy on me.

What we have is given by God and to teach it to others is to return it to him.

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.

Writers don't need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned

Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; not how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.