Forgiving Quotes - Page 27

• hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice.

  Charlotte Forten Grimke

  Racism, Hatred, Prejudice

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• I do believe I can forgive almost any shortcoming a person may have except lack of enthusiasm.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Believe, May, Enthusiasm

  Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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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

  Forgiveness, Heart, Errors

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

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• Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Lying, Forgive Me, Disrespect

  Song: Hold Ya Head, 2005

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• To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare days when a comedian has no jokes, people pardon the lapse. There is no forgiving a saint's occasional day of sin.

  Libbie Block

  Perfection, People, Comedian

  Libbie Block (1957). “The hills of Beverly”

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• In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.

  Francis Chan

  Reality, Earning It, And Love

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• The Christian life is a thank-you from beginning to end as we ponder what God has done. What an absurdity to think that we could ever bargain with God, as if there were anything we could put on the table. Nothing we can do would ever earn his favor. Yet all is ours for free. And the cross reveals his willingness to forgive not just once, but over and over and over again. How can we repay such extravagant, generous love? We cannot and need not, and the heart's only answer is gratitude.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Christian, Gratitude, Heart

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• We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries.

  Liam Neeson

  Country, Revenge, Moving

  "Liam Neeson Seeks Revenge in Seraphim Falls!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. January 26, 2007.

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• Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about [...] miracles. [...] And in any case, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.

  Richard Dawkins

  Prayer, Believe, Mean

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.

  Martin Luther

  Satisfaction, Confession, Accounts

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• Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His divine perfection, our gratitude for all His mercies, our penitence for our sins, our hope in His forgiving love, our submission to His authority, our confidence in His care, our desires for His favour, and for the providential and spiritual blessings needed for ourselves and others.

  Charles Hodge

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Prayer

  Charles Hodge (1874). “Soteriology, eschatology”, p.692

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• My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.

  Tara Brach

  Strong, Book, Teaching

  "Where Do We Find Peace and Freedom? An Interview With Tara Brach, Ph.D". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.

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• Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  People, Hateful, Anxious

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.145, Penguin

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• Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

  Saint Augustine

  Forgiveness, Thinking, Forgive Me

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• Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of the great "in spite of" that says: I forget although I remember. Without this kind of forgetting no human relationship can endure healthily. I don't refer to a solemn act of asking for and offering forgiveness. Such rituals as sometimes occur between parents and children, or friends, or man and wife, are often acts of moral arrogance on the one part and enforced humiliation on the other. But I speak of the lasting willingness to accept him who has hurt us.

  Paul Tillich

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Children

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• We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Running, Father

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• I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain. Or they forgive fast in order to get an advantage over the people they forgive. And their instant forgiving only makes things worse... People who have been wronged badly and wounded deeply should give themselves time and space before they forgive... There is a right moment to forgive. We cannot predict it in advance; we can only get ourselves ready for it when it arrives... Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Pain, Order

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• Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.

  Sarah Fielding

  Reading, Criticism, Stories

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• I guess my main worry is that people will start hating what I hate about myself. I worry that everyone will think I am really annoying and just want me to shut up. Which would make so much sense because I annoy myself... I guess I want people to know that if they are annoyed with me, I get it, it's totally cool. Please forgive me.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.

  Marita Golden

  Loyalty, Daughter, Real

  Marita Golden (2011). “Saving Our Sons”, p.185, Anchor

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• Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Deeds, Sin, Accepting

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• You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.

  Gary Renard

  Inspirational, Ego, Tables

  Gary Renard (2004). “The Disappearance of the Universe”, p.171, Hay House, Inc

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• God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.

  Francis Chan

  Rooms, Holy, Attributes

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.237, David C Cook

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• If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?

  Max Lucado

  Giving, Today, Lasts

  Max Lucado (2007). “Every Day Deserves a Chance: Wake Up to the Gift of 24 Hours”, p.115, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.

  Emily Dickinson

  Views, Giving, Forgive Me

  Emily Dickinson (1959). “Selected poems and letters of Emily Dickinson: together with Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of his correspondence with the poet and his visit to her in Amherst”, Turtleback

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