Forgiveness Quotes - Page 31

• Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

  Chance, Perpetrators, Given

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.124, Portobello Books

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• For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt.

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

  Giving, Challenges, Humanity

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• Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Saint, Graves, Fallen

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• Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

  Sholem Asch

  Memories, Moving, Opposites

  Sholem Asch (1939). “The Nazarene”

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• God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Forgiving, God Forgives

  Song: Dead Man Walking

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• In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.

  Andy Stanley

  Hurt, Decision, Soul

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• Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Revenge, Forgiving, Indifference

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

  Harry Anderson

  Success, Wise, Stars

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• Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.

  Anne Lamott

  Mean, Lunch, Done

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.47, Penguin

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• Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Revenge, Savages, Gentle

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• A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.

  Linda Sue Park

  Mistake, Heart, Forgiving

  Linda Sue Park (2002). “When My Name Was Keoko”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation.

  Joel Osteen

  Wall, Heart, Forgiving

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• If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store.

  Joel Osteen

  Good Life, Mistake, Choices

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• If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Eye, Teeth, Blind

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• He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

  Richard Yates

  Forgiving, Wanted, Angry

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.31, Random House

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• Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Happiness, Happy

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.88, Random House

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• Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

  Robert Jordan

  Women, Thinking, Differences

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.549, Macmillan

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• It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Hate, Hands

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.190, Penguin

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• I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.

  Christopher Paolini

  Eragon, Permission, Daring

  "Fictional character: Brom". "Eragon", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Love, Beautiful, Hope

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

  Confucius

  Men, Quality, Doe

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• Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Powerful, Punishment

  1883-92 Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R J Hollingdale).

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• We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

  Heinrich Heine

  Life, Death, Revenge

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• When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. We’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves.

  Joel Osteen

  Hurt, Forgiving, Company

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

  Diana Gabaldon

  Practice, Matter, Constant

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