Forgiveness Quotes - Page 16

• Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action - not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Choices, Decision, Feelings

  Joyce Meyer (2010). “The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk to God about Everything”, p.202, Hachette UK

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• Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satan’s disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adam’s lapse was passion.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Religious, Islamic, Passion

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• My god
  how gentle you are with me
  in spite of my great ignorance
  and how merciful You are with me
  in spite of my ugly deeds

  Ibn Ata Allah

  God, Religious, Ignorance

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• To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.

  Mark Hart

  Love, Patience, Character

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  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Confidence

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Moving On, Letting Go, Moving Forward

  Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.102, Bantam

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• There are some facts that will never change. One fact is that you are forgiven. If you are in Christ, when he sees you, your sins are covered-he doesn't see them. He sees you better than you see yourself.

  Max Lucado

  Facts, Sin, Christ

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.204, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Forgiving, Position, Oneself

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.111, Modern Library

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• Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.

  Robert Muller

  Self, Forgiving, Negative

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• When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

  Jon Krakauer

  Love, Godly, Light

  "Fictional character: Ron Franz". "Into the Wild", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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  Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

  Will Smith

  Jealousy, Hater, Bullying

  Song: Just the Two of Us, Album: Big Willie Style, 1997

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• Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ideas, Two, Forgiving

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• What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

  Deepak Chopra

  Resentment, Holding On, Breaths

  Twitter post from Aug 6, 2014

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• Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

  William Blake

  Vices, Paradise, Mutual

  'For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise' 'Mutual Forgiveness of each Vice' [prologue]

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• Nothing in the Christian life is more important than forgiveness-our forgiveness of others and God's forgiveness of us.

  John F. MacArthur

  Christian, Important, Life Is

  John F MacArthur (2011). “The MacArthur New Testament Commentary Set of 31 volumes”, p.374, Moody Publishers

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• Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Weakness, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.417, Manonmani Publishers

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• Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiving, Degrees, Love One Another

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.138, Vivekananda Kendra

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• To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessed, Giving, Honey

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876”, p.374, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.

  Ernest Holmes

  Mistake, Starting Over, Forgiving

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes”, p.102, Penguin

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• Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Resentment, Advantage

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2015

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• We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

  Samuel Butler

  Love Is, Forgiving, Easy

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4367, Delphi Classics

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• I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

  Cato the Elder

  Mistake, Pardon, My Own

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• No matter what your past has been, your future is spotless.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Past, Matter, Your Future

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• I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.

  Elizabeth Lowell

  Perfect, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  Elizabeth Lowell, Barbara McCauley (2003). “Summer Gold”, Silhouette

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• Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

  William Penn

  Winning, Forgiving, May

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.166

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