Gary Smalley Quotes

Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.

Gary Smalley

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• To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Great
  • Body
  • Belief

• Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Water
  • Poison
  • Absinthe

• If I repent now will God forgive me?

  

  Rabia Basri
  • God
  • Forgiving
  • Repent

• The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Failure
  • Poison
  • Rumor

• If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Experience
  • Persons
  • Forgiving

• Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Power
  • Weakness
  • Horror

• Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • May
  • Prejudice

• Never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti, that's right it's wicked, that's life I live it. Ain't askin' for forgiveness for my sins. I gotta get my soul right, I gotta get these Devils out my life. Lord forgive him, He got them dark forces in. connected to the high power. 666. I can introduce you to evil.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.

  

  Saadi
  • People
  • God
  • Forgiving

• When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Poison

• You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create one set of probabilities; angry, judgmental, critical and defensive will create another one altogether.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Today
  • Giving
  • Angry

• First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Past
  • Forget

• The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Past
  • Present

• I would require every producer of food to follow and have enforced a standard safety plan. We know how to produce safe food. It has a horrible name; it's called HACCP - Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point - and this was a food safety system that was developed for NASA so that astronauts wouldn't get sick in outer space. If you just think about what it might be like to have food poison under conditions of zero gravity, you don't even want to think about it.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Food
  • Control
  • Space

• If you clear that negative feeling and forgive yourself, then you can see the world from a different lens. You stop attracting that same type of experience. You can set yourself free.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • World
  • Different
  • Experience

• There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Thoughts

• Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

  

  Socrates
  • Part
  • Poison
  • Malice

• So many artists today will talk about green this or organic that, but you know what? What we are eating, I think, is really doing a lot of bad to us. I'm not sure if I'm the guy to do it right now, because I have to clean up my house too, so to speak, but we've got to start addressing this. Too many people are getting sick today.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • People
  • Healthy Life
  • Get Sick

• God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Difficult
  • Rooms
  • Forgiving

• Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Hours
  • Golden
  • Mendaciously

• No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Result
  • Fault

• Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.

  

  Gary Smalley
  • Forgiving
  • Poison
  • Get Sick