Cherie Carter-Scott Quotes
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
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I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
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I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.
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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.
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Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
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I vent my anger in the gym, and it calms me down.
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
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Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.
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The soul force we need in America today, more than any other, is the spirit of atonement. We need to humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness for the things we have done wrong. We need to ask God to forgive us for our arrogance.
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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.
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The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.
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I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
