Best 1057 quotes in «forgiving quotes» category

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

Who understands much, forgives much.

Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, ‘You’re disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.’ But women, we’re supposed to be like, ‘He messed up. He made a mistake.’

Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding.

Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

Women can't forgive failure.

Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

Women are raised to be the nurturers and steadiers of rocked boats, to hold relationships in place as if our lives depended on it. But it shores up your own dignity and integrity if you're able to say, "There are a million things I love about you, and I want our relationship to continue. I forgive you 95 percent, but not this 5 percent.

Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.

Words don't come easily, like forgive me.

Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

Wouldn't it be great if we could be a little less judgmental and a little more forgiving of each other's humanness? We're only here a short time. Let's pay more attention to the good and not the bad in one another.

Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.

You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!

You cannot forget the past but you can forgive it.

You didn't have to come after me." "Yes, I did," he said. "You're far too inexperienced to protect yourself in a hostile situation without me." "That's sweet. Maybe I'll forgive you." "Forgive me? Fro what?" "Fro telling me to shut up." His eyes narrowed. "I did not... Well, I did, But you were-" "Never mind.

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.

You can't forgive your sin. Only God can.

You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies, the pond sucking out the throb.

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.

You get work however you get work. People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is freelance, because their work is good, and because they are easy to get along with, and because they deliver the work on time. And you don't even need all three. Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. They'll forgive the lateness of the work if it's good, and if they like you. And you don't have to be as good as the others if you're on time and it's always a pleasure to hear from you.

You have to forgive everybody. It's the best beauty treatment.

You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.

You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle.

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

You must learn to forgive yourself as easily as you forgive others. And then take a further step and use all that energy that you used in condemning yourself for improving yourself. After that I really started to get somewhere - because there's only one person you can change and that's yourself. After you have changed yourself, you might be able to inspire others to look for change.

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

You need to learn to accept your flaws and forgive yourself.

You only find your Teacher once in many lifetimes. Never be afraid to see them and meditate with them. Your Teacher always understands and always forgives.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.

You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!

You should be forgiving when others make mistakes, but not when the mistakes are in you. You should be patient under duress yourself, but not when it affects others.

Your fellowship with God flows freely when you're willing to forgive, but it gets blocked by unforgiveness.

You should forgive your enemies and if you haven't any, just forgive a few of your friends.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.