Forgiveness Quotes - Page 29

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

  Bernadette Roberts

  Needs, Enough, Ends

  Bernadette Roberts (2005). “What is Self?: A Study of the Spiritual Journey in Terms of Consciousness”, p.16, Sentient Publications

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• Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.

  Anne Ellis

  Believe, People, Turn The Other Cheek

  Anne Ellis (1999). “The Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Love Is, Littles, Little Things

  Donna Jo Napoli (1995). “The Magic Circle”, p.61, Penguin

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• The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

  Bill Vaughan

  Character, United States, Citizens

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• The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Forgiving, Opinion

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• Forgiveness is the path to healing.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Healing, Path

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• Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Long, May, Sin

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• If little faults proceeding on distemper
  Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye
  When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,
  Appear before us?

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Eye, Littles

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Sin

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Five Red Herrings”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• If we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us.

  Antoinette Bosco

  Hurt, Forgiving, Persons

  Antoinette Bosco (2001). “Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty”

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• If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

  Rollo May

  Protest, Remains, Dependent

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• FORGIVE The People That Hurt You. God Will Pay You Back With Double The Joy...Double The Victory.

  Joel Osteen

  Hurt, People, Joy

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2012

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• Let us forget and forgive injuries.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Forgive And Forget, Forgiving, Injury

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1749). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell”, p.40

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• Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dust, Blood, White

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1852). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.45

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• It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Men, Remember

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• the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.

  Susanna Rowson

  Heart, Errors, Forgiving

  Susanna Rowson (2015). “Charlotte Temple”, p.73, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, Law, Gentle

  Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1756

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• We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job.

  Laura Dave

  Letting Go, Jobs, Forgiving

  Laura Dave (2008). “The Divorce Party: A Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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• For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Brother, Love Is, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

  Judy Blume

  Forget, Enjoy

  Judy Blume (2007). “Forever . . .”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgive, forget, learn the lesson and move forward!

  James A. Murphy III

  Moving, Forgiving, Lessons

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• Forgive those who have hurt you.

  Les Brown

  Hurt, Forgiving, I Forgive You

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• I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
  Those undreamt accidents that have made me
  Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
  Being but a part of ancient ceremony
  Notorious, till all my priceless things
  Are but a post the passing dogs defile.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dog, Long, Forgiving

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.96, Library of Alexandria

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• The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.

  Jerry Bridges

  Jesus, Mean, Blood

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• So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.

  William Morris

  Sea, Paradise, Bliss

  William Morris (1871). “The Earthly Paradise: A Poem”, p.2

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