Forgiving Quotes - Page 39

• Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

  Lillian Smith

  Men, Years, Giving

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• Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.

  Charles Stanley

  Looks, Down And, Faces

  Charles F. Stanley (1987). “Forgiveness”

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• You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Laughter, Philosophical

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.572, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Persons

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• I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.

  Amy Tan

  Hard Times, People, Betrayed

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• I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

  Tim Tebow

  Mom, Jesus, Children

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• But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

  Emma Thompson

  Hurt, May, Faces

  "Warts'n'all" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

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• If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Drama, Commitment, Together

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

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• The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Breakup, Book, Class

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• We know how to be doctors, nurses, lawyers. We know how to be tweeters. We know how to be everything. But how do you just be people? How do you be present with one another? How do you be honest with one another? How do you be compassionate towards one another, forgiving towards one another? We know what to do. We don't know what to be, how to be.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Doctors, Nurse, People

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• If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.

  Miroslav Volf

  Heart, Justice, Done

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2004.

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• I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Positive, Hate, Angel

  "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, (Chapter XI), 1901.

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• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  Orson Welles

  Hate, Real, Thinking

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• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Witty, Time

  'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 2

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• Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Enough, Intellect

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.826, GENERAL PRESS

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• Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

  Charles Williams

  Forgiveness, Party, Broken

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• Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Past

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Loss, Years, Diversity

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• I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

  Tom Wolfe

  Waiting, Never Forget, Grudge

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• It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

  Regina Brett

  Hurt, People, Easier

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• Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Joy, Grudge, Burden

  Twitter post from Jan 21, 2016

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• It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the Savior, you can repent and plead for forgiveness. There is someone you can forgive. There is someone you can thank. There is someone you can serve and lift. You can do it wherever you are and however alone and deserted you may feel.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Foundation, Too Late, May

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• Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Merit, Virtue, Reason

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• Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging.

  Woody Allen

  Orange, Forgive Me, Toes

  Bullets Over Broadway, www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

  Libba Bray

  Art, Pain, Regret

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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