Forgiveness Quotes - Page 48

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind one's own business.Not to want to manage other people's affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To pass over the mistakes of others.To accept insults and injuries.To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.To be kind and gentle even under provocation.Never to stand on one's dignity.To choose always the hardest.

Peace in the world depends on our relating to each other with compassion.

I’m beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves.

True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.

What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.

Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.

Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds' influence on the lives of many people in Louisiana and elsewhere has been immeasurable. Countless hundreds will rise up in the last day to call her 'blessed.

ving self and others is an every second of every day of every week, of every month, of every year gift that should not be taken for granted or withdrawn for petty arguments and misunderstandings. No one knows the day nor the hour that we or a loved one will meet our expiration here on this earth. Time to make time to heal, amend and/or forgive broken relationships, to live your dreams without regret and love like there is no tomorrow for when tomorrow is no longer there...memories will be great and consciences will be clear.

It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.

Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

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

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

We are so much distracted nowadays. There is so much distractions in the world today call it internet, media, football matches etc. but don't let it consume you.

Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.

Coming home seemed to have started the healing process. No longer vivid and garish, the memories seemed to be covered in gossemer, fading behind a curtain of time and forgiveness.

It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you’re offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger.

But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don’t say we’re sorry. We promise to make amends.”“I will.”“Mati en sheva yelu. This action will have no echo. It means we won’t repeat the same mistakes, that we won’t continue to do harm.

Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.

Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.

Until you make peace with who you are you'll never be content with what you have.

There is a payoff for examining the divine author's literary style. It will tell you something about Him. Whereas, Jonah's actions are extensively described and laboriously detailed, God's reactions (although miraculous) are only described in sparse, minimalist terms.God seems much more amused by Jonah than Jonah is with God. Every miracle is directed at Jonah. Yet, very little copy is used to described God's miracles. Although God's miracles are much more astonishing than Jonah's immature fits of rebellion, more copy is dedicated to Jonah.

Two things I learned a long time ago, Cate: Don't hold a grudge longer than it takes to work your way through a pan of brownies all by yourself, and don't begrudge someone an apology if they deserve it.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards.

It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.

Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace.

You can’t invite love with hate.

I don't want you to feel sorry for me. I want you to forgive yourself for being human, just like you would forgive anyone else.

When you forgive everyone, you have no one to fight.

Find someone who loves you enough to forgive you for all of your mistakes.

Who are we, to pass judgment on one another. When we have once done the same foolish acts.

Obedience, forgiveness, and devotion are in the blood of every victim.

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

... but if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger will poison you. You have to learn to let it go"... "people have reasons for doing the things that they do, especially when they care about you. You may not always understand what they are, but if you can try to understand the person then you might see that they really care, despite what happened."pg 100 Meredith to Vlad

And we're all good, everything is forgiven between Beethoven and me because this is the part of me that hasn't changed. In this monent I'm not defined by the other things, the things that happened to me, the things I didn't choose. This is the part of me that defines me for all time, for always. The thing I choose completely.

If you can't forgive and forget, then pick one and do it ...

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

Anyone can love a rose, but only a saint can love its thorns.

Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes. Ah, the power, Ah, the freedom

The only principle of Success in Life :"You must be present to win.

Forgiving someone else doesn't give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on.

A forgiven Christian is a forgiving Christian.

There are things a person does without any reason, without any second thought, maybe they do not hold grudges for long, maybe they just forgive, and there is something strange about that type of person. I admire them.

The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.

I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive.

You go on by doing the best you can. You go on by being generous. You go on by being true. You go on by offering comfort to others who can't go on. You go on by allowing the unbearable days to pass and allowing the pleasure in other days. You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage.

Knowledge of Self is very important, you can't be living in a world pretending to be someone you're not. No one will ever believe in you, when you don't have the courage to believe in yourself. You can not live to impress others solely not giving thought to express your true being. No one wants to interact with a pretender, a fake, a wannabe.

Do not throw me out. Please.

The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me

If you love someone, you will forgive him or her all the wrongs. You can make it right and love again.

Without forgiveness life is governed ... by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.

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.

Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.