Given Quotes - Page 20

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

There's people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. People are being given paid leave for killing people. That's not right. That's not right by anyone's standards.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.

I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain. Or they forgive fast in order to get an advantage over the people they forgive. And their instant forgiving only makes things worse... People who have been wronged badly and wounded deeply should give themselves time and space before they forgive... There is a right moment to forgive. We cannot predict it in advance; we can only get ourselves ready for it when it arrives... Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long.

The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.

There is hope in forgiveness

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

When we give, we receive much more than what we have given.

Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.