Forgiveness Quotes - Page 35

• It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiving, Mind, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.162, Vivekananda Kendra

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• The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Forgiving, Suffering

  Swami Vivekananda (1968). “Awakened India”

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• To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

  Albert Ellis

  People, Forgiving, Realistic

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• Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

  Democritus

  Wish, Virtue

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• Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

  Aristotle

  Hate, Punishment, Forgiving

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2947, Delphi Classics

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• These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.

  Norm Dicks

  Government, Cost, Debt

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• Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Problems Love, New Day, Serenity

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• Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A family should be a place where comfort is experienced and understood, so that the people are prepared to give comfort to others.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Children, Compassion, People

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• Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Spiritual, Children

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.554, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

  Tertullian

  Letting Go, Done, Faces

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• Forgive what you can't excuse.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Forgiving, Excuse

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.347

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• It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Men, Remember

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• For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Brother, Love Is, Men

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

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• Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

  Audre Lorde

  Hatred, Wish, Hated

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• the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.

  Susanna Rowson

  Heart, Errors, Forgiving

  Susanna Rowson (2015). “Charlotte Temple”, p.73, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
  Those undreamt accidents that have made me
  Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
  Being but a part of ancient ceremony
  Notorious, till all my priceless things
  Are but a post the passing dogs defile.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dog, Long, Forgiving

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.96, Library of Alexandria

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• Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Change, Moving, Forgiving

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.448, Faber & Faber

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• It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

  Deb Caletti

  Forgiving, Want, Wonder

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude.

  James Van Praagh

  Inspiring, Attitude, Permanent

  "Martin Luther King and the Power of Prayer", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 15, 2015.

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• A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

  William Arthur Ward

  Forgiving, Prison, Not Forgiving

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• The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Positive, Respect, Mother

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• Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

  Jodi Picoult

  Im Sorry, Mean, Opportunity

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

  Marcus Eremita

  Forgiving, Doe, Lord

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• For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray - that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis we shall receive the eternal verdict.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Comforting, Forgiving, Way

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• This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Winning, Blood, Saint

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