Forgiving Quotes - Page 37

• To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

  Desmond Tutu

  Desmond Tutu (2012). “No Future Without Forgiveness”, p.35, Random House

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• After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

  Jodi Picoult

  Way, Communicate, Forgiven

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.510, Simon and Schuster

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• When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Inspiration, Offensive

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• And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Doe, Done, I Forgive You

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.96, Booklassic

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• The noblest revenge is to forgive

  Thomas Fuller

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Christian Inspirational

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• Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

  C. S. Lewis

  Nice, Smart, Stupid

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• Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

  Jose Saramago

  Forgive Me, Littles, Acceptance Speech

  Jose Saramago's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1998.

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• At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has suffered in silence for so long, this good woman who refuse to believe she's good, for only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.

  Paul Auster

  Believe, Hands, Long

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• the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

  Eric Clapton

  Body, Painful, Pessimism

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• God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.

  Ava Gardner

  Able, Frailty, God Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

  Daniel Handler

  Pain, Life And Love, People

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• Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal.

  Joyce Meyer

  Pain, Moving, Past

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• It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of confusion or inner dishonesty or is it a sign that we are guided without our knowing or is it both ...The reasons one gives for an action to others and to one's self are certainly inadequate. One can give a reason for everything. In the last resort one acts from a level which remains hidden from us. So one can only ask God to judge us and to forgive us.... At the end of the day I can only ask God to give a merciful judgement on today and all its decisions. It is now in his hand.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hands, Knowing, Self

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• Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.

  Heinrich Heine

  Flower, Heart, Humble

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• A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you’ll always be alone.

  Stephen Elliott

  Reflection, Light, Years

  Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.158, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

  Mitch Albom

  Past, Too Late, Able

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.18, Broadway Books

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• I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

  C.P. Snow

  Men, Want, Knows

  C.P. Snow (2010). “The Masters”, p.40, House of Stratus

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• A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well. God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.

  Libba Bray

  Farewell, Apology, Men

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.460, Delacorte Press

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• At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

  Donald Miller

  Years, Mckinley, Another Year

  Donald Miller (2010). “Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

  Jane Austen

  Forever, Vices, Opinion

  "Fictional character: Mr. Darcy". "Pride & Prejudice", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• De pronto no puedo decirte lo que yo te debo decir, hombre,perdóname; sabrás que aunque no escuches mis palabras no me eché a llorar ni a dormir y que contigo estoy sin verte desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin. I can't just suddenly tell you what I should be telling you, friend, forgive me; you know that although you don't hear my words, I wasn't asleep or in tears, that I am with you without seeing you for a good long time and until the end.

  Pablo Neruda

  Names, Long, Forgive Me

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• At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and areoplanes to Australasia, we would still have such trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones, and apologise for our tantrums?

  Alain de Botton

  Moon, Men, Light

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• Just show him that I didn't need his apology, I guess. Show him that I was okay. Better than okay. I was happy, in spite of everything he'd done to me, and no, I didn't forgive him. God help me, I would not forgive him.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Apology, Needs, Done

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Frostbitten”, p.167, Random House Canada

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• How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Giving Up, Repentance, Ready To Give Up

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). “The Mistress of Spices”, Doubleday

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• When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Children, Done, Forgiven

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.308, Macmillan

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