Given Quotes - Page 38

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust of unfairness and create a chance for a new fairness. Only forgiveness can make the breakthrough.

We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not even have the decency to die when those we hate die-for it is a parasite sucking OUR blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it. [forgiveness]

For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.

It just sucks when you’ve given so much and you realize it still wasn't good enough for someone.

People who can't kiss had everything given to them.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be. Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift. I think one of the most important things is starting off the day forgiving others and forgiving yourself. You learn from your mistakes, but I don't think you have to drag them back into today.

Don't wait until life has given you an expiration date to live.

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude.

We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

When women love, they forgive everything...

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you know it we become violent and demanding and manipulative. It's so important that we keep forgiving one another - not once in a while, but every moment of life.

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.