Given Quotes - Page 31

And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.

The self is made, not given

The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

We forgive, if we are wise, not for the other person, but for ourselves. We forgive, not to erase a wrong, but to relieve the residue of the wrong that is alive within us. We forgive because it is less painful than holding on to resentment. We forgive because without it we condemn ourselves to repeating endlessly the very trauma or situation that hurt us so. We forgive because ultimately it is the smartest action to take on our own behalf. We forgive because it restores to us a sense of inner balance.

You'll be surprised what someone is able to handle given no other choice.

God has given me a life far beyond anything I ever dreamed about. God is, man, God is something else man.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Charity is willingly given from the heart.

There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to forgive.

The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, conform over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

Forgiveness is better than revenge.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask the Lord for strength to forgive. This expression of desire will be of the very substance of your repentance. It may not be easy, and it may not come quickly. But if you will seek it with sincerity and cultivate it, it will come. And even though he whom you have forgiven continues to pursue and threaten you, you will know you have done what you could to effect a reconciliation. There will come into your heart a peace otherwise unattainable.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

When the will is given, the battle is ended.