Love And Forgiveness Quotes - Page 3

• It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us.

  Naomie Harris

  Revenge, Compassion, And Love

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Law, Skills

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.126, Xist Publishing

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• My job isn't to go around judging people. Priests are meant to teach love and forgiveness. That to me is the essence of being a Christian. And trying to find that love and forgiveness in ourselves and others every day should be a challenge that we want to achieve.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Christian, Jobs, Essence

  Rosamund Lupton (2010). “Sister”, p.101, Hachette UK

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• I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

  Michele Bachmann

  Christian, Children, Teenager

  "Interview: Michele Bachmann on Faith, Family". Interview with Isabel Lyman, www.christianpost.com. June 9, 2011.

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• When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.

  Jimmy Carter

  Army, Caring, Doors

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• My hope is that this movie will affect people on a very profound level and reach them with a message of faith, hope, love and forgiveness.

  Mel Gibson

  People, Profound, Levels

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• When everything around you seems bleak, sick and empty - the antidote is forgiveness and love of yourself, and others, plus a dollop of gratitude.

  Jan Hellriegel

  Gratitude, Sick, And Love

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• It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2016

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• One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

  Stormie Omartian

  Love, Marriage, Forgiveness

  Stormie Omartian (2014). “The Power of a Praying® Wife”, p.25, Harvest House Publishers

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• Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

  Michael Jackson

  Forgiveness, Biblical, Christ On The Cross

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• It's time to sort of get back to a basic message, the message that was given. At this time, the world has gone nuts, I think. And this film speaks - well, Christ spoke of faith, hope, love and forgiveness. And these are things I think we need to be reminded of again. He forgave as he was tortured and killed. And we could do with a little of that behavior.

  Mel Gibson

  Thinking, Nuts, Needs

  "Mel Gibson Talks to O'Reilly While Filming 'The Passion'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 14, 2003.

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• I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

  Park Chan-wook

  Believe, Fake, Watches

  "Exclusive: I'm A Cyborg Q&A". Interview With Leigh Singer, www.ign.com. April 4, 2008.

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• Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Dirty, Past

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• I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

  Dick Gephardt

  Years, Hatred, Honor

  "Sen. Richard Gephardt's Speech Text". abcnews.go.com. August 16.

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Karma, Religious

  "Especially for Christians: Powerful Thought-provoking Words from the Past" by Mark Alton Rose, (p. 19), 2005.

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• Rose quartz is said to be the stone of unconditional love. This crystal opens the heart chakra and is believed to encourage self-love and forgiveness, and to help you let go of anger, resentment, and jealousy.

  Miranda Kerr

  Letting Go, Heart, Unconditional Love

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Interview with Terry Richardson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Humility, Successful

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• I knew that my heart and mind would always be tempted to feel anger--to find blame and hate. But I resolved that when the negative feelings came upon me, I wouldn't wait for them to grow or fester. I would always turn immediately to the Source of all true power: I would turn to God and let His love and forgiveness protect and save me.

  Immaculee Ilibagiza

  Hate, Heart, True Power

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• The pavilion that seems to be hiding you from God may be fear of man rather than this desire to serve others. The Savior's only motivation was to help people... I challenge you to go for the Lord to someone, despite any fear you may have, to extend love and forgiveness. I promise you that as you do, you will feel the love of the Savior for that person and His love for you, and it will not seem to come from a great distance.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Motivation, Distance, Men

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• "Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness-adoption into His family- fellowship with His people-freedom from the penalty of sin- liberation from the power of sin."

  Billy Graham

  People, Adoption, News

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.

  Dave Hunt

  Forgiveness, Appreciation, Our Love

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