Forgiveness Quotes - Page 20

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Forgiving, Havens, Asks

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• Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.

  Suzanne Somers

  Pain, Feel Better, Forgiving

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

  Phillips Brooks

  Faults, Bears, Vengeful

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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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• I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

  William Brewster

  Heart, Godly, Discipline

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• Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Friendship, Teamwork

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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

  Hurt, Walking Forward, Forgiving

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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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• 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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• "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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• Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.

  Gautama Buddha

  Forgiving, Forget, Forgiven

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• Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Action, Happened

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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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• Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.

  David Jeremiah

  Jesus, Faults, Forfeit

  Dr. David Jeremiah (2013). “Prayer, the Great Adventure”, p.148, Multnomah

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• God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Wish, Who We Are, Worst

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• If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Jesus, Forgiving, Crosses

  Anne Graham Lotz (2009). “Just Give Me Jesus”, p.224, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

  Norman Cousins

  Happy Birthday, Recycling

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• Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

  Louis Dudek

  Law, Forgiving, Lasts

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• My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.

  J. Lynn

  Im Sorry, Guy, Brain

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• God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Perpetrators, Giver

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.56, Penguin

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