Given Quotes - Page 22

Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.

In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.

But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your Lord shall open a door to you in your trouble: wait upon Him, as the night watch waiteth for the morning. He will not tarry. Go up to your watch-tower, and come not down, but by prayer, and faith, and hope, wait on.

Good to forgive, Best to forget.

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

Change is a given; growth, however, is optional.

My ability to throw a baseball was a gift. It was a God-given gift. And I am truly appreciative of that gift.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it.

You are either moving towards or away from success at any given time. What direction are you headed in?

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you.

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.

There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.