Forgiveness Quotations | Page 7

It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.

So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea...

Forgiveness works the miracle of change.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

But with morning cool repentance came.

But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.

You invite judgment into your life every time you judge others. To avoid this invitation to negativity, it's best to stop focusing on others' darkness. Instead, pay attention to their strengths. Today, be a horse with blinders. Look at only the good. As you develop this power, you will attract positive forces into your life.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves To wash it white as snow?

I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

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

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

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.

Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.

The more people know, the more they forgive.

I could see peace instead of this.

Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

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

That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel...

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.

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

We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Never repeat old grievances.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take!

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.

Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."

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

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?"

The weak can never forgive.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.

The noblest revenge is to forgive

Forgotten is forgiven.

Cats know not how to pardon.

Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.