~ Forgiveness Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When something does not insist on being noticed when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Cynthia Ozick

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Ellen Goodman

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When we forgive evil we do not excuse it we do not tolerate it we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face call it what it is let its horror shock and stun and enrage us and only then do we forgive it.

Lewis B. Smedes

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee O God!

Heinrich Heine

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Mankind by the perverse depravity of their nature esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

Francois de Fenelon

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]An easy thing O Power Divine To thank thee for these gifts of Thine For summer's sunshine winter's snow For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow; But when shall I attain to this- To thank Thee for the things I miss?

Thomas W. Higginson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Resentment is the 'number one' offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease for we have been not only mentally and physically ill we have been spiritually sick.

Alcoholics Anonymous

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]For one mother joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone while for yet another it's reveling in a much-anticipated vacation.

Eileen Stukane

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice; and be ye kind to one another tenderhearted forgiving one another even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Bible

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]However mean your life is meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.

Henry David Thoreau

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry we're eating pretty well. With home and health and happiness we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence God's very good to us.

Anonymous

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared in whatever situation he is therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.

Timothy Dwight

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third because although they took my all it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed and not I who robbed.

Matthew Henry