Forgiveness Quotes - Page 19

• Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Beauty, I Realized, Ifs

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• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, War, Kissing

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• Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

  Willa Cather

  Fall, Dark, Men

  Willa Cather (1938). “The novels and stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

  Walter Lippmann

  Love, Understanding, Ends

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.328, Transaction Publishers

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• To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

  Isaac Watts

  Wise, Mean, Wrath

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic”, p.331

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• The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Forgiving, Degrees, Littles

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• We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Forgiving, Havens, Asks

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• It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.

  Alan Redpath

  Forgive Me, Faithful, Forgiving

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• Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  "Marianne Williamson: 10 Ways To Stay Spiritually Connected" By Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hurt, Thinking, Persons

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• The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

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• If we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole being to feel good. To hold a grudge against anyone is like carrying the devil on your shoulders. It is our willingness to forgive and forget that casts away such a burden and brings light into our hearts, freeing us from many ill feelings against our fellow human beings.

  Sydney Banks

  Heart, Light, Feel Good

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• When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

  Richard Holloway

  Human Experience, Humans, Happens

  Richard Holloway (2002). “On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable?”, p.12, Canongate Books

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• You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

  M. L. Stedman

  Resent You, Forgiving, Resent

  M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgive And Forget, Forgiving, Ifs

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.206, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Compassion, Care

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.371, Joseph Conrad

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• "He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix. 2). God allowed him to fall, because He meant to make him ruler over the whole world, that, remembering his own fall, he might forgive those who should slip in the future. And that what I have said is no guess, listen to Christ Himself saying: 'Simon, Simon, etc.'"

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Fall, Forgiving, World

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• Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Angel, Fighting, Forgiving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3688, Manonmani Publishers

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• I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

  Paul Simon

  Heart, Envy, Soul

  Song: Wartime Prayers

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• With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

  Paul Eldridge

  Genius, Stones, New Roads

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• None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.

  Dan Harmon

  Running, Hurt, Mistake

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• The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

  Immaculee Ilibagiza

  World, Bigs, Huge

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• Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

  Phillips Brooks

  Faults, Bears, Vengeful

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