Given Quotes - Page 15

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

Each time I'm in a film, Givenchy dresses me.

So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

The secret to 'doing it all' is not necessarily doing it all, but rather discovering which part of the 'all' He has given us to do and doing all of THAT.

The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee." It says at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more.

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.

Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.

To dwell means to belong to a given place.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given to me?