Forgiveness Quotes - Page 30

• If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

  Francis Beaumont

  Men, Silence, Overcoming

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• If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, People, Blame

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.489, First Avenue Editions

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• The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Unforgivable Sin, Unforgiving, Sin

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• God will pardon: That's His business.

  Heinrich Heine

  Pardon, Gods Will

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• Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it.

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

  Doe, Deeds, Rise Above

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.112, Portobello Books

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• Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

  Chance, Perpetrators, Given

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.124, Portobello Books

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• For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt.

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

  Giving, Challenges, Humanity

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• Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Saint, Graves, Fallen

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• Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

  Sholem Asch

  Memories, Moving, Opposites

  Sholem Asch (1939). “The Nazarene”

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• God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Forgiving, God Forgives

  Song: Dead Man Walking

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• Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

  Harry Anderson

  Success, Wise, Stars

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• Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

  Dwight Morrow

  Party, Rain, Humility

  Speech, 10 Oct. 1930

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• No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Heart, Forgiving

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• But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your Lord shall open a door to you in your trouble: wait upon Him, as the night watch waiteth for the morning. He will not tarry. Go up to your watch-tower, and come not down, but by prayer, and faith, and hope, wait on.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Morning, Prayer, Night

  Samuel Rutherford, Hamilton Smith (2008). “Extracts from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford”, p.45, Scripture Truth

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• Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

  Robert Kennedy

  Clever, Names, Forgive And Forget

  Quoted in Nancy McPhee, The Second Book of Insults (1981)

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• During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us, and then strive to train our heart to bear and forgive these things patiently, in imitation of our Saviour. This is the way to acquire a strong spirit.

  Philip Neri

  Strong, Prayer, Heart

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• You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

  E. W. Howe

  Im Sorry, Apology, I Am Sorry

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• The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive.

  Demi Moore

  Sorry, Apology, Two

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• I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

  John G. Rowland

  Sorry, Responsibility, Apology

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• Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

  Saadi

  Prayer, Forgiving, Sin

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• We pardon as long as we love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Long, Pardon

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• To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

  Thomas Secker

  Christian, Evil, Perfection

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 251), 1895.

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• Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Revenge, Savages, Gentle

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• It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.

  Tori Spelling

  Giving Up, Mistake, Want

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• See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event - it's a process.

  Barry Lyga

  Events, Process, Happens

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