Forgiving Quotes (page 30)

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• birthday
• cold
• party

''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience...How terrible. Tove Jansson

• forgiveness
• traitor
• because

I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never. Emiliano Zapata

• god
• forgiveness
• boss

There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba Nikos Kazantzakis

• helpful
• bad
• help

But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required." This impressed me so deeply that I went around saying it to myself. But then I forgot which book it was. Saul Bellow

• forgiveness
• end
• endings

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness. Jeanette Winterson

• forgiveness
• forget
• forgets

One can forgive but one should never forget. Marjane Satrapi

• forgiveness
• understanding
• understandable

To understand all is to forgive all. Evelyn Waugh

• words
• god
• together

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. Charles Dickens

• forgiveness
• caring
• evening

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care Leonard Cohen

• learning
• thinking
• people

He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish... Emily Bronte

• forgiveness
• difficult
• ifs

Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so. Marion Zimmer Bradley

• god
• forgiveness
• will

You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you. Max Lucado

• manly
• die
• reality

If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus' fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer

• warrior
• good
• forgiveness

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love. Cheryl Strayed

• bitter
• mindfulness
• learning

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them. Napoleon Bonaparte