Best 1057 quotes in «forgiving quotes» category

The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!

The best way of become forgiving is to feel gratitude.

The betrayal meant he couldn't trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn't forgive her.

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough.

The brave only know how to forgive.

The capacity to forgive is not just about Rwandan women. It is about a willingness of women all over the world to work across conflict lines, to say, "Yes, I'm a Serb. Or yes, I'm a Muslim. Or yes, I'm a Croat. But I'm also a mother.

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving.

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering.

The cut worm forgives the plow.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

The first and often only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness... When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.

The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I have not performed my duty, he is my friend, however little he may appear so. But if a man praises and lauds me, never reproves me, overlooks my faults, and forgives them before I have repented, he is my enemy, however much he may appear my friend.

The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.

The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors. Being superior to physical suffering, it sometimes chanced that they were superior to any consolation which the missionaries could offer; and the law to do as you would be done by fell with less persuasiveness on the ears of those who, for their part, did not care how they were done by, who loved their enemies after a new fashion, and came very near freely forgiving them all they did.

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

The longer we are members of the Church, the better we understand the gospel, the more we will be inclined to be peacefully minded. The more diligently we follow the teaching of Christ, the slower we will be to be angry with each other and the quicker we will be to forgive each other.

The longevity of every relationship is decided by the willingness to forgive

The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

... the Lord Jesus said, 'To those who are in bonds, Come out, and to those who are in prison, Go forth' (Isa. 49:9); so your sins are forgiven. All, then, are forgiven, nor is there any one whom He has not loosed. For thus it is written, that He has forgiven 'all transgressions, doing away with the handwriting of the ordinance that was against us' (Col. 2:13-14). Why, then, do we hold the bonds of others, while we enjoy our own remission? He, who forgave all, required of all that what every one remembers to have been forgiven to himself, he also should forgive others.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

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.

The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

The only thing left to do is forgive and forget. I want to forgive you and I want to forget you.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.

The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He forgives others because he himself has been so graciously forgiven. He realizes that, by receiving God’s forgiveness through Christ, he has forfeited the right to be offended when others hurt him.