Forgiveness Quotes - Page 33

• If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you know it we become violent and demanding and manipulative. It's so important that we keep forgiving one another - not once in a while, but every moment of life.

  Henri Nouwen

  People, Giving, Important

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• We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Hurt, Revenge, People

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• Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Attitude, Moving, Forgiving

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• When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.

  Jean Vanier

  Wall, Creating, People

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.36, Paulist Press

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• Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Decision, Care, Forget

  Simon Wiesenthal (2008). “The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness”, p.100, Schocken

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• To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

  Nhat Hanh

  Party, Suffering, Sides

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• In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Revenge, Anger, Men

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• When you assume responsibility for what you experience
  and share what you experience in a spirit of companionship,
  that is the same as forgiveness.
  When you hold someone responsible for what you experience,
  you lose power.

  Gary Zukav

  Responsibility, Spirit, Assuming

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day
  hoping that the other person will die.

  Debbie Ford

  Poison, Resentment, Drink

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• To hate another is to hate yourself.
  We all live within the one Universal Mind.
  What we think about another, we think about ourselves.
  If you have an enemy, forgive him now.
  Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve.
  You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate.
  Show charity and goodwill toward others
  and it will return to enhance your own life
  in many wonderful ways.

  Bryan Adams

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• If we let go of things, our life is going to change.
  And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.

  Caroline Myss

  Letting Go, Reality, Life Is

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• If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

  Francis Beaumont

  Men, Silence, Overcoming

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• If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, People, Blame

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.489, First Avenue Editions

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• the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.

  P. D. James

  Unforgivable, Forgiven

  P.D. James (2015). “P. D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries: Cover Her Face, A Mind to Murder, Unnatural Causes, Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and Death of an Expert Witness”, p.1607, Simon and Schuster

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• For still in mutual sufferance lies
  The secret of true living;
  Love scarce is love that never knows
  The sweetness of forgiving.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Lying, Secret, Forgiving

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.331

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• In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross - with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved - injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Men, Amnesty, Doe

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 252), 1895.

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• We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us.

  Charles Stanley

  Heart, Mean, Feelings

  Charles Stanley (2008). “Landmines in the Path of the Believer: Avoiding the Hidden Dangers”, p.104, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.

  Louise Hay

  Forgiving, Punishing Yourself, Want

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• The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!

  William Wordsworth

  Justice, Forgiving, God Forgives

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.220

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• Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Im Sorry, Mean, Safe

  Patricia C. Wrede (2011). “Across the Great Barrier”, p.296, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

  Lora Leigh

  Easier, Permission, Asks

  Lora Leigh (2012). “Lora Leigh: The Breeds Novels 7-11”, p.427, Penguin

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• The sin
  That neither God nor man can well forgive.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Forgiving, Sin

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1240, Delphi Classics

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• It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.

  Peter Winter

  Forgiving, Godlike

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• By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Strong, Long, Evil

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”

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• The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Unforgivable Sin, Unforgiving, Sin

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