Best 1057 quotes in «forgiving quotes» category

Friendship is a Spackle in itself. You'll forgive your friends a lot, and if you're a woman, you'll forgive your straight male friends even more. They represent the possibility of mutual toleration between the sexes, a keyhole into the mind of the Other, and the promise of one day meeting someone just like them except that you want to sleep with them.

Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.

God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness.

God always forgives when you are totally repentant and you desire to change. He forgives... and He never gets tired of forgiving. Never. You may get tired asking. I hope not. He never, never tires of forgiving. Never.

God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, 'Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.'

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

God forgive you, but I never can.

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

God forgives man the time spent looking at airplane photos.

God forgives us and remembers our sin no more; therefore, stop remembering what God has forgotten.

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

God has forgiven everything that I've ever done. If someone does something to hurt my family or me, I can always forgive them. It keeps hate and anger out of my heart.

God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

God is more eager to forgive us than we are to be forgiven.

God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator.

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

God never tires of forgiving us.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings.

Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.

Grace cannot forgive unconfessed sin.

Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice.

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good?

He gave her an indulgent look. "I'll forgive these rash words for now." She sputtered, "Forgive? Let's talk about who should be forgiving who.""Whom," he corrected."Shut up! I'm in the right here. Remember all those things you did to me?

He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.

He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." . . . Forgive him, he has no manners." I get by on good looks," Nick said.

"He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix. 2). God allowed him to fall, because He meant to make him ruler over the whole world, that, remembering his own fall, he might forgive those who should slip in the future. And that what I have said is no guess, listen to Christ Himself saying: 'Simon, Simon, etc.'

He's not going to look back if you don't,' he said, 'They're the most forgiving creatures God ever made.

Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge... Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again - I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

Hopefully America will forgive me.

Horses are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we're not capable of filling ourselves.

He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.