Given Quotes - Page 30

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

I was always kind of naïve, and really needed to be given some direction.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed

I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.

If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.

If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.

You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.

From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.