148 private quotes tagged forgiveness

“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“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.” — Nicole Kidman

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“Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.” — Kevyn Aucoin

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“When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.” — Bernard Meltzer

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“I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.” — Marianne Williamson

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“In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.” — Madeleine L'Engle

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“Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.” — Billy Ray Cyrus

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“I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.” — Kate Atkinson

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“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.” — Lewis B. Smedes

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“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.” — Indira Gandhi

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“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.” — Emo Philips

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“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

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“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” — Lewis B. Smedes

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“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.” — Gerald Jampolsky

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“Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.” — Saint Augustine

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“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” — Marianne Williamson

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“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” — William Arthur Ward

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“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.” — Billy Graham

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“The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.” — Rick Perry

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