Forgiveness Quotes - Page 25

When women love, they forgive everything...

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you know it we become violent and demanding and manipulative. It's so important that we keep forgiving one another - not once in a while, but every moment of life.

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

The more people know, the more they forgive.

To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take!

Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.

Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.

Forgiveness is God's command.