Forgiven Quotes - Page 19

• there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

  Truman Capote

  Sin, Cruelty, Deliberate

  Truman Capote (1996). “A Christmas memory: One Christmas ;& The Thanksgiving visitor”, Random House, Inc.

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• To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.

  Muriel Barbery

  Adequate, Vulgarity, Compensation

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.34, Gallic Books

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• Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Order, Done, Difficult

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• I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there's no one I can turn to with this love.

  Steven Morrissey

  Jesus, Turns, I Can

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• Unicorns are not to be forgiven." The magician felt himself growing giddy with jealousy, not only of the touch but of something like a secret that was moving between Molly and the unicorn. "Unicorns are for beginnings," he said, "for innocence and purity, for newness. Unicorns are for young girls." Molly was stroking the unicorn's throat as timidly as though she were blind. She dried her grimy tears on the white mane. "You don't know much about unicorns," she said.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Girl, Moving, White

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• I get the feeling," Alec said, and smiled, "she hasn't forgiven me for betraying you, as she sees it." "Good girl," said Jace with appreciation. "I didn't betray you, idiot." "It's the thought that counts.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Appreciation, Feelings

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.753, Simon and Schuster

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• When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

  Tyler Perry

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Walking Forward

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• Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

  Frederick Buechner

  Sadness, Sins Not, Unforgivable Sin

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 30, 2016

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• I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

  Armand Assante

  Earth, Sin, Deals

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

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• To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.

  Elton John

  Death, Forgiving, May

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• Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Fool, Adages

  Song: The Better To Dream Of You, Album: A Place In The World, 1996

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• One of those poor fellows that had become a Christian was badgered by his companions; and one of them said, "How do you know that Jesus Christ has forgiven your sins? " The man turned at once and said, "How do you know when you have got sugar in your tea?

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 17), 1895.

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• The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

  Saint Augustine

  Eggs, Forgiving, Debtors

  St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 51-94”, p.115

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• Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Struggle, Fighting

  "'Contra Julianum' ('Against Julian')". Book by Augustine. Book II, Chapter 8, 22,

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• When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

  George Eliot

  Rain, Men, Wind

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3846, Delphi Classics

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• Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Forgotten

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• If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.

  Roger Zelazny

  Lying, Names, Long

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• And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, New Orleans, Light

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• It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness-a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim's family has forgiven him. And there can be forgiveness without pardon.

  Allen C. Guelzo

  Forgiveness, Mean, Doe

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• At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone - except Caliban - is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings. That's how it is in Shakespeare. But Shakespeare was wrong. Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again. And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.

  Gary D.

  Son, Sea, Quality

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• Death has no sting to a Believer. Once death was the penalty of sin-sin being forgiven, the penalty ceases and Christians do not die, now, as a punishment for their sin, but they die that they may be prepared to live!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Punishment, May

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• I have forgiven all the old actors for dying.
  A new one comes on with the same lines,
  like large white growths, in his mouth.
  The dancers come on from the wings,
  perfectly mated.

  Anne Sexton

  Wings, White, Dancer

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Forgiveness, Done, Innocence

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• There's a moment when all would go smooth and even,
  If only the dead could find out when
  To come back, and be forgiven.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Forgiveness, Moments, Smooth

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• It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Resentment, Forgotten, Sometimes

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