Given Quotes - Page 33

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something

I was given a tremendous gift in terms of athleticism. Maybe it was because I wasn't so confident in other areas.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

To whom much is given, much is required. Righteousness exalts a nation...but sin is a reproach to any people

A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love - how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

Cats know not how to pardon.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

To those who much has been given, much is expected.

I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Good people are always so sure they're right.

Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.

It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses. Ignatius If I cast up a confessed, repented, and forsaken sin against another, and allow my remembrance of that sin to colour my thinking and feed my suspicions, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this