Forgiven Quotes (page 5)

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• missing
• reading
• evening

...When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be forgiven everything—even the fact that she reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically. Pauline Kael

• lost
• bad
• decision

He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost Orson Scott Card

• humanity
• lies
• chance

[W]e must recognize that ethics requires us to risk ourselves precisely at moments of unknowingness, when what forms us diverges from what lies before us, when our willingness to become undone in relation to others constitutes our chance of becoming human. To be undone by another is a primary necessity, an anguish, to be sure, but also a chance--to be addressed, claimed, bound to what is not me, but also to be moved, to be prompted to act, to address myself elsewhere, and so to vacate the... Judith Butler

• world
• bloom
• life

Giving, not getting, brings to full bloom the Christmas spirit. Enemies are forgiven, friends remembered, and God obeyed. The spirit of Christmas illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than things. To catch the real meaning of the “spirit of Christmas,” we need only drop the last syllable, and it becomes the “Spirit of Christ. Thomas S. Monson

• humanity
• eyes
• saying

Celebration of the Human Voice---When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others. Eduardo Galeano

• thinking
• which
• much

I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much. Steven Morrissey

• second chance
• opportunity
• chance

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings. David Millar

• hurt
• experience
• hurting

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them. Joyce Meyer

• forgiveness
• bridge
• manly

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller

• forgotten

Forgotten is forgiven. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• feeling
• she
• saying

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

• wellness
• remember
• well

What is forgiven is usually well remembered. Louis Dudek

• mistake
• lesson
• still

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven. Robert Downey, Jr.

• she
• breakfast
• manly

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. Marlene Dietrich

• your life
• powerful
• inspirational

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. Joseph Prince