A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.
There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.
The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people we forgive them, we must leave them free to respond to our good news however they are inclined. If the response is not what we hoped for, we can go home and enjoy our own healing in private.
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
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.
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
Pray you now, forget and forgive.
I never forgive, but I always forget.
Good to forgive, Best to forget.
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.
I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.
God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.
Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can't get him out, get help. It's available. In the meantime, don't let him near the kids, and don't let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There's an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
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