Given Quotes - Page 17

Whatever you have been given is what someone needs.

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.

Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

It is difficult to be a good noncommissioned officer. If it had been easy, they would have given it to the officer corps.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

Nobody`s Perfect

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

The bravest man in the universe Is the one who has forgiven first.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

A man who has been assiduous in acquiring the fruits of love will not cease loving even if he suffers a thousand calamities. Let Stephen, the disciple of Christ, and others like him persuade you of the truth of this (cf. Acts 7:60). Our Lord Himself prayed for His murderers and asked the Father to forgive them because they did not know what they were doing (cf. Luke 23:34).

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.