Forgiveness Quotes - Page 35

• Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Goodbye

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.58, Celestial Arts

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• Take care that no one hates you justly.

  Publilius Syrus

  Clever, Hate, Hatred

  "Maxims".

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• Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Revenge, Punishment, Criminals

  Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).

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• Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A family should be a place where comfort is experienced and understood, so that the people are prepared to give comfort to others.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Children, Compassion, People

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• The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

  William Hazlitt

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Vices

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.94

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• Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Spiritual, Children

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.554, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiving, Mind, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.162, Vivekananda Kendra

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• To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

  Albert Ellis

  People, Forgiving, Realistic

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• These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.

  Norm Dicks

  Government, Cost, Debt

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• Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.

  Alcee Hastings

  Christian, Buddhist, Believe

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• Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Problems Love, New Day, Serenity

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• I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Thinking, Forgive Me

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• To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mother, Morning, Father

  "'Do I need to defend that I'm a decent woman?'". Interview with Ann Curry, www.today.com. June 6, 2005.

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• Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.

  Korie Robertson

  Hurt, People, Forgiving

  Korie Robertson, Chrys Howard (2014). “Faith Commander: Living Five Values from the Parables of Jesus”, p.17, Zondervan

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• The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. spiritual Dimensions of Psychology."

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Spiritual, Hate, Psychology

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• The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Forgiving, Suffering

  Swami Vivekananda (1968). “Awakened India”

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• Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

  Jennifer McMahon

  Needs, Sometimes, Persons

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• Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dear Lord, Needs, Surrender

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.176, A&C Black

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• Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.

  Rachel Vincent

  Im Sorry, Apology, Chocolate

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• No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

  Marcus Eremita

  Forgiving, Doe, Lord

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• Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.

  John Wayne

  Sorry, Apology, Fog

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• Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.

  Emily Giffin

  Disappointment, Heart, Pride

  Emily Giffin (2014). “The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter”, p.757, St. Martin's Press

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• Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Law, Forgiving, Followers

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• Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

  Desmond Tutu

  Spiritual, Real, World

  "The Truth About Forgiveness" by Wendy Strgar, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2010.

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• If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Lapses, Half, Granted

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.14, CLC Publications

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