Given Quotes - Page 6

Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And He invites us all to forgive each other.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances

Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of the great "in spite of" that says: I forget although I remember. Without this kind of forgetting no human relationship can endure healthily. I don't refer to a solemn act of asking for and offering forgiveness. Such rituals as sometimes occur between parents and children, or friends, or man and wife, are often acts of moral arrogance on the one part and enforced humiliation on the other. But I speak of the lasting willingness to accept him who has hurt us.

If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

To whom much is given, from him much will be required.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer

"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance on himself."

Know how to live the time that is given you.

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.