Given Quotes - Page 26

I've given up on you...Love fades. Mine has.

The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate-filled, unforgiving world. God's forgiveness gives us a fresh start.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is our own pleasure of seeing someone who hurt us getting it back and then some. Justice, on the other hand, is secure when someone pays a fair penalty for wronging another even if the injured person takes no pleasure in the transaction. Vengeance is personal satisfaction. Justice is moral accounting...Human forgiveness does not do away with human justice.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

We should thank God for being with us, not ask Him to be with us (this is always given!).

In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

Forgotten is forgiven.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.

When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity.

When we stray from His presence, He longs for you to come back. He weeps that you are missing out on His love, protection and provision. He throws His arms open, runs toward you, gathers you up, and welcomes you home.

Whatever we accomplish in life, if it's solely for our own good, then it doesn't mean that much. The things you do that affect others in a positive way are the ones that count. Whatever facet of life you're in, God has given you a gift; do the best you can with that gift.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

There is nothing that in the end, cannot be forgiven.