Nick Nolte (Nicholas King Nolte) Quotes

Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.

Nick Nolte

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• Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • Church
  • Christian

• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Know
  • Inspired
  • Matter

• Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Criticism
  • Experiences

• Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Emotional
  • Painful
  • Luxury

• We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Different
  • Night

• We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Strong
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Mind
  • Experiences
  • Someone

• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Words
  • Tears
  • Forgiveness

• I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Say
  • I Can
  • Painful

• Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Dream
  • Child
  • Broken

• It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Words

• Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Light

• God's gift of forgiveness and eternal life in heaven is absolutely free!

  

  Jack Chick
  • Life
  • God
  • Free

• Only by presupposing God's prior and inconceivable forgiveness can the limitations of human good will be transcended, and only thus can the danger of human pride be avoided.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Good
  • God
  • Pride

• I have begun to see that even my father's harshness was a kind of love. An imperfect love, to be sure, but love nonetheless. He pushed me because he loved me, because he wanted no man to ever look down at his offspring. Now with time, rather than bitterness I feel blessing.… My initial fury has slowly given way to forgiveness.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Time
  • Father
  • Forgiveness

• Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut
  • Forgiveness

• You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Truth

• Forgiveness for one's self is the only way we can keep going through life and give ourselves the best chance at being the best people we can be.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • People
  • Life
  • Forgiveness

• Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.

  

  George Muller
  • God
  • Children
  • May

• The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Truth

• We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Need

• There's not a word that describes us. We’re not alternative, metal or grunge - we’re not any of that. We’re just what we are.

  

  Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
  • Alternatives
  • Metals
  • Grunge

• Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.

  

  Nick Nolte
  • Forgiveness
  • Experiences
  • Painful