Best 1057 quotes in «forgiving quotes» category

Damon: "If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.

Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.

Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart.

Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise

Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.

Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly.

DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning.

Don’t be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.

Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.

Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.

Don't be afraid to go to the Sacrament of Confession, where you will meet Jesus who forgives you.

Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can.

Don't forgive your enemies for their sake - do it for your sake.

Don't blame me. The devil made me do it, and the Lord said you have to forgive.

Don't drag anchors of unforgiveness into your relationships. Forgive who you need to forgive. Reach out to someone who may be able to help you work this through. Don't drag around those things that "encumber" you.

Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Do we refuse to forgive? God, too, will refuse to forgive us. As we treat our neighbors, so also does God treat us. The forgiveness or unforgiveness of your sins, then, and hence also your salvation or destruction, depend on you yourself. For without forgiveness of sins there is no salvation. You can see for yourself how serious it is.

Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is.

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language.

Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.

Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.

Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .

Every day of Ramadhan Allah beautifies Jannah and says: "Soon my righteous servants will finish their work and will rest in you." On the last night of Ramadan Allah forgives the sins of His servants.' They asked: 'Is the last night Lailatul Qadr?' He said: 'No, but the worker is paid when he finishes his work.

Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

Every time I pray, I ask for forgiveness. I'm a sinner. I sin every single day. But I do know that God loves me. I do know that God forgives me. It helps me in my every day life because there's nothing anyone can do to me that I can't forgive them for.

Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.

Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself.

Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.

Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides us little evidence of anything other than a regal, relentless, and miraculous enmity; sin he forgives, suffering he heals, evil he casts out, and death he conquers. And absolutely nowhere does Christ act as if any of these things are part of the eternal work or purposes of God.

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves.

Forgive, forget, learn the lesson and move forward!