Forgiving Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.

  Paulo Coelho

  Firsts, Enough, Cases

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• Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, Lying, Love Is

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.137, Penguin

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• You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.

  Veronica Roth

  Mom, Evil, Able

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• This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love, and then speak it again.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Love, Loyalty, Gratitude

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• Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

  Pope Francis

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• Jesus receives us with all of our limitations, He bring us the mercy of the Father who forgives us, and transforms our heart, rendering it a new heart, capable of loving Him, who loved His own to the end (cf. John 13:1). And this love is manifested in his mercy. Jesus always forgives us.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Judging, Finals, Remember

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• The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

  Stephen Baxter

  Long, Earth, Not Forgiving

  Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett (2013). “The Long War: (Long Earth 2)”, p.29, Random House

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• Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Forgiveness, Heart

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2014

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• My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched creature: I have sinn'd; but be thou merciful, and grant that yet I may enjoy what thou wilt have me love!

  Francis Beaumont

  Art, Forgive Me, Childhood

  Francis Beaumont (1750). “The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.435

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• One of the greatest struggles of the healing process
  is to forgive both yourself and others
  and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts.

  Caroline Myss

  Hurt, Struggle, Healing

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Why People Don't Heal and How They Can”, p.78, Harmony

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• In order to heal oneself,
  we must learn how to forgive.

  Caroline Myss

  Order, Heal, How To Forgive

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• Forgive me for using the term 'fat little brother'. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health.

  Fidel Castro

  Brother, Exercise, Thinking

  "Havana on the offensive as Castro lashes out at 'fat little brother' Bush" by Richard Luscombe, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2005.

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• To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Hurt, Knows

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• The world you see is just a movie in your mind.
  Rocks dont see it.
  Bless and sit down.
  Forgive and forget.
  Practice kindness all day to everybody
  and you will realize you’re already
  in heaven now.
  That’s the story.
  That’s the message.
  Nobody understands it,
  nobody listens, they’re
  all running around like chickens with heads cut
  off. I will try to teach it but it will
  be in vain, s’why I’ll
  end up in a shack
  praying and being
  cool and singing
  by my woodstove
  making pancakes.

  Jack Kerouac

  Running, Kindness, Cutting

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