Forgiveness Quotes - Page 37

• We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Health, Achieve

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• It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be. Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift. I think one of the most important things is starting off the day forgiving others and forgiving yourself. You learn from your mistakes, but I don't think you have to drag them back into today.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Mistake, Love Is

  "Joel Osteen on Power of Prayer, Forgiveness, Trusting in God's Timetable". Interview with Melissa Barnhart, www.christianpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

  Charles Fillmore

  Life Changing, Night, Ill Will

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• Don't let the sun go down on me.

  Elton John

  Anger, Angry Man, Rejection

  Song: Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me, 1974

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• Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on

  Criss Jami

  Moving, Character, Broken

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

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• Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

  Joan Lunden

  Hurt, Laughter, Anger

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• Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  New Beginnings, Mean, Creating

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

  Kedar Joshi

  Men, Pearls, Beast

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• The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

  Marianne Moore

  Hate

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.136, Penguin

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• In a man they forgive anything. In a woman nothing.

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Acceptance, Men, Forgiving

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• There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Forgiving, Faults

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.72

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• Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

  Honore de Balzac

  Bears, Debtors, Trouble

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• No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Pedestal, Lovers, Pettiness

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• After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Grief, Joy, Sin

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, p.191, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Valentines Day, Deep Affection

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Im Sorry, Regret, Apology

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.59, BookBaby

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• Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Tongue, Fingers, Humans

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• God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Wise, Forgiving, Atonement

  Richard Salter Storrs (1875). “Conditions of Success in Preaching Without Notes: Three Lectures Delivered Before the Students of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, Januray 13, 20, 27: 1875; with an Appendix”, p.114

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• When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

  Reba McEntire

  Forgiving, Pounds, Millions

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• I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

  Ray Bradbury

  Love You, Creating, People

  "Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury on God, 'monsters and angels'" by John Blake, CNN: Living, August 02, 2010.

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• It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Maturity, Generosity, Doubt

  "Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani". Book by Brian Morris, p. 21, 2013.

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• There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

  Cesare Pavese

  Stupidity, Forgiving, Indifference

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.214, Transaction Publishers

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• Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

  John Lydon

  Razors, Turn The Other Cheek, Turns

  "NME's Rock 'n' Roll Years". Book by John Tobler, 1992.

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• Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

  Desmond Tutu

  Existence, Humans, Absolutes

  "Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Healing the Shattered Soul". Book by Dalene Fuller Rogers and Harold G Koenig, 2002.

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• I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

  Simone Weil

  Imagine, Knows

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.9, Psychology Press

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