Forgiving Quotes - Page 22

• To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

  Charles Williams

  Two, Doctrine, Magnificence

  Charles Williams (2016). “The Image of the City and Other Essays”, p.141, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The best way of become forgiving is to feel gratitude.

  Joe Vitale

  Gratitude, Way, Feels

  Joe Vitale (2005). “The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) from the Inside Out”, p.121, John Wiley & Sons

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• If religion commands universal charity, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to forgive and pray for all our enemies without any reserve; it is because all degrees of love are degrees of happiness, that strengthen and support the Divine life of the soul, and are as necessary to its health and happiness, as proper food is necessary to the health and happiness of the body.

  William Law

  Love, Support, Soul

  William Law (2013). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.

  Martha Beck

  Giving Up, Memories, Past

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• The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Giving, Joy

  John Piper (2009). “Taste and See: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.407, Multnomah

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• Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.

  Les Brown

  Mistake, Moving, Past

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• Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

  William Congreve

  Men, Goodness

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.164

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• It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

  Elizabeth George

  Forgiveness, Healing, Maturity

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• Any time you do a project you never really know how people are going to take it especially on TV. I think they used to be more forgiving with shows.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Thinking, People, Tvs

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt and Breckin Meyer Get Furry With Garfield". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. June 15, 2006.

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• It's hard to not get typed in Hollywood. They really want to type you. I'm trying to avoid that, because I want to do a lot of things. I know what I'm capable of. I forgive them because they don't know. They haven't seen me play Hamlet. They're not going to cast me as an English aristocrat. I'm going to have to prove that on my own. That's okay. That's what you have to fight for if you want to be an artist.

  Sam Rockwell

  Fighting, Artist, Play

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• We can make choices, but we can be vulnerable; we can do the wrong thing, but the wrong thing for all the right reasons. I think it [life] is basically about forgiveness, and not about someone else forgiving you, but you forgiving yourself. I think we all want a lot of that.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Thinking, Choices, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We still dislike hypocrites. It's a very American characteristic. We still like people who have ideas and who are willing to stand up for what they believe in. We're very forgiving of failures and very willing to give people a second and third chance if they mean to do better and are sorry for what they've done.

  David McCullough

  Sorry, Believe, Hypocrite

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

  John Vianney

  Baby, Burning, Sin

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• When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Taken, Heart, Devil

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• As I get older I've come to realize that the best way to "get even" with someone is to forgive - and then forget.

  Mark Hart

  Way, Realizing, Forget

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• The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government. If you will forgive me, you know someone has once likened government to a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

  Ronald Reagan

  Baby, Responsibility, Government

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.232, Best Books on

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• I think maybe my greatest weakness is that I trust people too much. I'm too trusting. And when they let me down, if they let me down, I never forgive. I find it very, very hard to forgive people that deceived me. So I don't know if you would call that a weakness, but my wife said "let up."

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Wife, People

  Donald Trump's remarks at the third Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colorado, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2015.

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• You are full of love. You love with all of your soul. It's brighter than the fire ... blinding. That's why you pull away from it ... Love is pain ... Love ... give ... forgive. Risk the pain. It is your nature.

  Jane Espenson

  Pain, Love You, Love Is

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• Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Forgive And Forget, Empires

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.271

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• When Arnold Schwarzenegger goes to his reward - how's that? That's a crack, but I treat Governor Schwarzenegger well in my book. He's done such great work in California; we'll forgive him one personal habit. Everybody should have one not-totally-CO2-friendly habit they can be forgiven for. So we'll forgive him that one.

  Jay Inslee

  Book, California, Should Have

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.

  Naomie Harris

  Revenge, Inspire, World

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• My biggest problem with President Bush is when we were in kindergarten together, he broke my favorite red crayon! Since that moment, my psychiatrist told me that I haven't been able to move forward as a person. Severely hindering the chances of me being able to mature any since that tragic day. For that, I'll never forgive him.

  Carolyn Parrish

  Moving Forward, President, Together

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• By nature, your soul is soft, gentle, loving and kind. It is forgiving, peaceful, and humble. Confident and comforting in times of despair, your soul is strong, focused, and determined in the mission called life.

  Debbie Ford

  Strong, Humble, Soul

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• The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does, even if you murdered or robbed, ya it's wrong, but God loves, take one step toward him he'll take two toward you, even when all else fails, God'll support you

  Nas

  Support You, Two, Steps

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• To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.

  Marianne Williamson

  Past, Remember, Forgotten

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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