Forgiveness Quotes - page 3

It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability. View quote
Jimmy Carter
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love. View quote
Jimmy Carter
And what if I don't want forgiveness? View quote
Erica Jong
Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness. View quote
Samuel Richardson
The chief danger of the 20th century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell. View quote
William Booth
Redemption comes to those who wait, Forgiveness is the key. View quote
Tom Petty
Forgiveness is better than revenge. View quote
Pittacus of Mytilene
Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness. View quote
Meher Baba
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. View quote
Marianne Williamson
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self became reluctance to assert one's self, became forgiveness, love of one's enemies. Misery became a distinction. (Georg Brandes)
I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter But my will gets weak And my thoughts seem to scatter But I think it's about forgiveness Forgiveness Even if, even if you don't love me anymore. View quote
Don Henley
If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths. View quote
John Fante
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
I went sky divin', I went rocky mountain climbin', I went 2.7 seconds on a bull name Fumanchu.And I loved deeper, And I spoke sweeter, And I gave forgiveness I've been denying, And he said someday I hope you get the chance,To live like you were dyin'. View quote
Tim McGraw
You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do. View quote
Nicole Kidman
Forgiveness is realizing that what you thought happened, didn't. View quote
Byron Katie
Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later. View quote
Seth Godin
My guilt walks so slowly that forgiveness and oblivion always catch up with it. View quote
Marco Denevi
I am a firm believer in living as if there were no such thing as a secret. If we hide our sins and live in darkness, we will never get the healing we so desperately need; in fact, if it is hidden so well that we don't even recognize it, we may never even find forgiveness. (Ted Haggard)
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck . . . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. View quote
Ellen Goodman
By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley