Forgiving Quotes
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We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.
Julia Roberts -
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
John Tillotson
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To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.
Carter Heyward -
I just think it's strange when people say, "There is no God." Because I feel so connected to people and things that I just can't deny that there's a God who wants us to tell good stories and be the best we can be and forgive and be forgiven, even if we're not the best we can be. I really believe innately that we do the best we can.
Selma Blair -
Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.
Marianne Williamson -
I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
Charles Dickens -
God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.
Robert H. Schuller -
In a nation that likes to see itself as forgiving, we are mulishly unforgiving of those who have committed a felony...
Alex Kotlowitz
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As we meditate on the undeserved mercy of God in forgiving our sins, we will freely grant forgiveness and kindness to our husbands and children.
Carolyn Mahaney -
One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it.
Madame de La Fayette -
I figured out that I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. Like you live with a scar or a limp or whatever. You always know it's there. It reminds you never to let yourself do anything so stupid and horrible and wrong again. I step out of my rut, step again, and keep stepping.
Gail Giles -
Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.
D. Patrick Miller -
Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed.
William Shakespeare -
Forgive people so that Allah may forgive you.
Umar
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In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.
Hannah Arendt -
A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
Stevie Smith -
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.
Dalai Lama -
The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.
Hannah Arendt -
A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.
Umberto Eco -
This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.
William Shakespeare
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Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and normal between you.
Jimmy Carter -
How do children learn to correct their mistakes? By watching how you correct yours. How do children learn to overcome their failures? By watching how you overcome yours. How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness? By watching you forgive yourself.
William Martin -
My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that poetry, the telling images, the brevity. I want to hear it in my own work as well as in the poetry I read. However, I think I'm generally more forgiving of other poets than myself.
David Starkey -
And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.
John Hines