Forgiveness Quotes - Page 26

• Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

  Sophocles

  Silence, Silent, Pardon

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• You're only human.
  Let's break free of this gravity of judgment
  And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.

  India.Arie

  Wings, Judgment, Break

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• Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

  Saint Augustine

  Thinking, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves, than those of moderation and the forgiveness of injuries.

  Laurence Sterne

  Exercise, Virtue, Injury

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.409

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• Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of the great "in spite of" that says: I forget although I remember. Without this kind of forgetting no human relationship can endure healthily. I don't refer to a solemn act of asking for and offering forgiveness. Such rituals as sometimes occur between parents and children, or friends, or man and wife, are often acts of moral arrogance on the one part and enforced humiliation on the other. But I speak of the lasting willingness to accept him who has hurt us.

  Paul Tillich

  Hurt, Children, Men

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• I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain. Or they forgive fast in order to get an advantage over the people they forgive. And their instant forgiving only makes things worse... People who have been wronged badly and wounded deeply should give themselves time and space before they forgive... There is a right moment to forgive. We cannot predict it in advance; we can only get ourselves ready for it when it arrives... Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Pain, Order, Space

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• The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus-and here is the awful cost of such freedom-a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive.'

  Gordon Dalbey

  Grief, Humble, Forgiving

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• an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

  Crime, Victim, Perpetrators

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• My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender.

  Gordon Dalbey

  Christian, Jesus, Self

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• Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

  Charlaine Harris

  Regret, Moving, Acceptance

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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• Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

  Stephen Levine

  Healing, Self Love, Difficult

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• Now, there was an anchorite called Timothy in a coenobium. The abbot, having heard of a brother who was being tempted, asked Timothy about him, and the anchorite advised him to drive the brother away. Then when he had been driven away, the brother's temptation fell upon Timothy to the point where he was in danger. Then Timothy stood up before God and said, "I have sinned. Forgive me." Then a voice came which said to him, "Timothy, the only reason I have done this to you is because you despised your brother in the time of his temptation."

  Poemen

  Brother, Voice, Forgive Me

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• Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

  W. H. Auden

  Party, Unique, Murder Victims

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• Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

  Gary Chapman

  Love Is, Power Of Forgiveness

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.84, Moody Publishers

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• There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point of all goodness. It comes bringing with it, if not the freshness of innocence, yet a glow of inspiration that nerves feeble hands for hard tasks, a fire of hope that lights anew the old high ideal, so that it stands before the eye in clear relief, beckoning to make it out on its own.

  Charles Brent

  Inspiration, Eye, Fire

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• The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

  Veronica Roth

  Evil, Loving Someone, Forgiving

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• Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Time, Forgiving, Age

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"

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• When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

  Craig T. Nelson

  Inspirational, Compassion, Connections

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• Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

  Tim Fargo

  Emotional, Baggage, Dropping

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• Life's too short not to forgive.

  Miranda Kenneally

  Forgiving, Too Short, Life's Too Short

  Miranda Kenneally (2013). “Miranda Kenneally Bundle: Catching Jordan, Stealing Parker, Things I Can't Forget”, p.669, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.

  Mike Norton

  Forgiving, Suffering, Refuse

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• Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.

  Marcus Eremita

  Justice, Sin, Deliberation

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• The sign of sincere love is to forgive wrongs done to us. It was with such love that the Lord loved the world.

  Marcus Eremita

  Love Is, Forgiving, Done

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• Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Forgiving, Littles

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Will not God, who has commanded men to act thus, do as much himself and even more? For God commanded Peter to forgive till seventy times seven.

  Poemen

  Men, Forgiving, Seven

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