Quotes by Forgiving Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone. Desmond Tutu forgiving able pain Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven. Deepak Chopra forgiving freedom inspire True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know. Desmond Tutu repentance forgiving done Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. Diane Frolov forgiving tree kids Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go. Deepak Chopra let-it-go forgiving persons I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the best parts. It didn't matter that he couldn't love me, that had nothing to do with it. But if I couldn't forgive him, then I could not love him, and that part of me was gone. And I found eventually that I wanted it back." ({Lord John, Drums of Autumn} Diana Gabaldon autumn forgiving long I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again." "As for my pleasure..." His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it." He crooked a finger at me. "Come here. Diana Gabaldon afternoon forgive-me forgiving To forgive is not just to be altruistic. Desmond Tutu forgiving To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good. Desmond Tutu forgiving revenge self Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive. Dieter F. Uchtdorf forgiving common heaven When the Lord commands that we must forgive all men, that includes forgiving ourselves. Dieter F. Uchtdorf forgiving lord men Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself. Ding Ling forgiveness forgive-me forgiving We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It's much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons. Dillon Burroughs forgiving revenge calling This is practically the language used to fallen women, and chiefly by their own sex: "God may forgive you, but we never can!" - a declaration which, however common, in spirit if not in substance, is, when one comes to analyse it, unparalleled in its arrogance of blasphemy. That for a single offence, however grave, a whole life should be blasted, is a doctrine repugnant even to Nature's own dealings in the visible world. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik forgiving arrogance sex Forgiving is good for your health. Desmond Tutu forgiving Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror. Dieter F. Uchtdorf forgiving mirrors people Forgiving is not easy. It is not cheap. Desmond Tutu forgiving easy I can forgive, I just can't forget. DMX forgiving i-can forget Forgive me if I don't shake hands. Doc Holliday forgive-me forgiving hands If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood. Desmond Tutu forgiving mercy would-be «89101112131415161718»
