Forgiving Quotes - Page 28

• Being a parent is a life sentence. From the day that kid is born until the day you die and then some. Mom, there is nothing to forgive. You gave me life. And, hey, you're not crazy anymore. Everybody thinks I am. Real funny, mom.

  Christopher Titus

  Crazy, Real, Kids

  "Titus / The Visit". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Our marriage, like many others, has had its ups and its downs. It took a lot of work and a whole lot of therapy to get to a place where I could forgive Anthony. It was not an easy choice in any way. But I made the decision that it was worth staying in this marriage. That was a decision I made for me, for our son and for our family.

  Huma Abedin

  Son, Choices, Decision

  "Huma Abedin's statement on husband Anthony Weiner an unprecedented stance" by Emily Ngo, www.newsday.com. July 23, 2013.

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• South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Never Forget, Terrible

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• Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.

  Todd Walker

  Photography, Cameras, Film

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• So forgive me, love, if I cry in your shower. So forgive me, love, for the salt in your bed. So forgive me, love, if I cry all afternoon.

  Alanis Morissette

  Forgive Me, Bed, Afternoon

  Song: Your House, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

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• Justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Boys, Two, Justice

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.205, Macmillan

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• The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

  Hannah Arendt

  Done, Redemption, Predicaments

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.237, University of Chicago Press

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• True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

  Desmond Tutu

  Done, Repentance, Turns

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• Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go.

  Peter McWilliams

  Past, Luxury, Wealth And Happiness

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• Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.

  Jerome Lejeune

  Men, Sometimes, Never Forgive

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• The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either.

  Evander Holyfield

  Father, Kids, Important

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• I can never forgive God for having invented the French

  Peter Ustinov

  Never Forgive, I Can

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• You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.

  Nelson Mandela

  Ifs, Adversaries

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• God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Dream, Opportunity, Giving

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• Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge!

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Father, Squares, Heaven

  Eugene H. Peterson, Jim Lyster, John Sharon, Peter Santucci (1997). “Subversive Spirituality”, p.263, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.

  Richard Rohr

  Mother, Father, People

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• If a person has done wrong, is conscious of what he has done and does not say sorry, I ask God to take him into account. I forgive him, but he does not receive that forgiveness, he is closed to forgiveness. We must forgive, because we were all forgiven. It is another thing to receive that forgiveness.

  Pope Francis

  Sorry, Doe, Done

  "Pope Francis: "I'm not a star, but the servant of servants of God"". en.radiovaticana.va. September 28, 2015.

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• If priest is closed to forgiveness, he won't receive it, because he locked the door from the inside. And what remains is to pray for the Lord to open that door. To forgive you must be willing. But not everyone can receive or know how to receive it, or are just not willing to receive it.

  Pope Francis

  Doors, Praying, Lord

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• In Christianity, it's very clear that the god we worship is equal to love. The bible says, 'God is love'. The god we worship was sacrificed, crucified on the cross, tortured, spit on, and was still forgiving. This is our highest example.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Example, Worship, God Is Love

  "Son of Hamas". GQ interview, www.gq.com. March 11, 2010.

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• RAW is very forgiving. I was photographing a farm woman in Ecuador cooking over a small fire and my fill flash didn't go off a few times. I was about to delete the RAW files but decided to play with the curves first because I like the composition. It turned out that the image, although underexposed by two stops, was better than the fill-flashed images because the fire was the only source of illumination and it looked more real.

  Peter Menzel

  Real, Fire, Curves

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• I know that everybody is seeking bliss. And they're all looking for it mostly in the wrong ways, and as a result of that, they err, but there's no reason to hate them; they just don't know any better. Jesus himself on the cross said, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." And so people who hate you, that's their problem. It doesn't have to be your problem. I wish them well.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Jesus, Hate, People

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• Forgive others so that you may be forgiven.

  T. D. Jakes

  May, Forgiven

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• As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other.

  John Sandford

  Hurt, Pain, Garden

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• What has the Cross left in each of us? You see, it gives us a treasure that no one else can give: the certainty of the faithful love which God has for us. A love so great that it enters into our sin and forgives it, enters into our suffering and gives us the strength to bear it. It is a love which enters into death to conquer it and save us.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Faithful, Suffering

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• We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

  Marianne Williamson

  Support, Belittle, Heal

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

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