Forgiving Quotes - Page 23

• There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.

  Sean Penn

  Loyalty, Awful, Kind

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• Forgive me if I don't shake hands.

  Doc Holliday

  Hands, Forgive Me, Shakes

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• If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Laughing, Useless, Threat

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• There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sorry, World, Asking For Forgiveness

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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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• The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need.

  Marianne Williamson

  Past, Love Is, Choices

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• Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.

  Jean Seberg

  Forgive Me, Nerves, I Can

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• I'm home. I hope the Manchester United fans forgive me for being late.

  Robin van Persie

  Home, Forgive Me, Fans

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• If I could forgive, it meant I was a strong good person who could take responsibility for the path I had chosen for myself, and all the consequences that accompanied that choice. And it gave me the simple but powerful satisfaction of extending a kindness to another person in a tough spot.

  Piper Kerman

  Strong, Powerful, Kindness

  Piper Kerman (2010). “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison”, p.280, Spiegel & Grau

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• No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men.

  W. C. Fields

  Sympathy, Men, Likes

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• There is a very big forgiving side in me that keeps me very light in my heart and happy.

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Heart, Light, Sides

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• Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Jobs, War, Men

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• Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

  Alan Paton

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Forgiveness, Enemy, Sun

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.31

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• May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

  Charles Dickens

  Forgiveness, Done, May

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Ghost Stories”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

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• There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to forgive.

  Robin Quivers

  Forgiveness, Cutting, Get Better

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• The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.

  Frederic Reynolds

  Forgiveness, Mind, Lasts

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• I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Past, Trying, How To Forgive

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• We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.

  Julia Roberts

  Moving, Broken, Helping

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• Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word 'as' in that clause." What makes the 'as' so terrifying? The fact that Jesus plainly links our forgiven-ness by the Father with our forgiving-ness of fellow human beings. Jesus' next remark could not be more explicit: 'If you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.'

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.87, Harper Collins

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• Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.

  Korie Robertson

  Forgiveness, Hurt, People

  Korie Robertson, Chrys Howard (2014). “Faith Commander: Living Five Values from the Parables of Jesus”, p.17, Zondervan

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• You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

  Alan Cohen

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• Forgiveness is the key that can unshackle us from a past that will not rest in the grave of things over and done with. As long as our minds are captive to the memory of having been wronged, they are not free to wish for reconciliation with the one who wronged us.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Memories, Past, Keys

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