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Quotes About Forgive

But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a real kid brother, a real husband, a real wife. Jim wasn't a substitute for anything. And there is no substitute for Jim, if you'll forgive my saying so, anywhere.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Our heart is a treasury; if you spend all its wealth at once you are ruined. We find it as difficult to forgive a person for displaying his feeling in all its nakedness as we do to forgive a man for being penniless.
~ Honore de Balzac
We feel spirit every time we love, every time we forgive, every time scorn is overwhelmed by empathy and bitterness overcome by compassion.
~ Val Kilmer
O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.
~ James Joyce
Banana is also a Methodist minister who became a liberation theologian and once reworked the Lord's Prayer to include the lines: Teach us to demand our share of the gold/And forgive us our docility.
~ Unknown
Teach us to demand our share of the gold, And forgive us our docility.
~ Unknown
Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive.
~ Philip Pullman
I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me.
~ Jim Butcher
And I . . . I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me.
~ Jim Butcher
Life is too short to wake up with regrets, so love the people who treat you right, and forget the ones who don't.
~ Unknown
True love is not how you forgive, but how you forget, not what you see but what you feel, not how you listen but how you understand.
~ Unknown
This is how it goes: I will respect those who respect me, and forget those who forget me. Simple as that.
~ Unknown
True love is not how you forgive but how you forget,not how you see but what you feel, not how you listen but how you understand, and not how you let go but how you hold on.
~ Unknown
A sudden madness came down upon the unwary lover [Orpheus]—forgivable, surely, if Death knew how to forgive.
~ Virgil
I am content to follow to its source Every event in action or in thought; Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot!
~ W.B. Yeats
Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames
A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.
~ Phyllis McGinley
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~ Plato
John F. Kennedy is reported to have said that we can forgive our enemies but we shouldn't forget their names.
~ Debbie Macomber
The Lord says to forgive is devine. -The Lord didn't go to high school with you.
~ Unknown
Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie, gimme a break before I die: grant me wisdom, will and wit, purity, probity, pluck and grit. Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind, gimme great abs and a steel-trap mind, and forgive, Ye Gods, some humble advice—these little blessings would suffice to beget an earthly paradise: make the bad people good—and the good people nice; and before our world goes over the brink, teach the believers how to think.
~ Unknown
In my mind I'm driven by mirror neurons. Can't you just see intention Can't you just feel emotion. Ain't it just like history to sneak up from behind 'Cause I'm driven by mirror neurons in my mind. There's a holy host of others gathered between us. Maybe we're on the dark side of the road And it seems like it goes on and on forever. You must forgive me 'Cause in my mind I'm driven by mirror neurons.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
Whenever we are ill, we need to search our hearts to see who it is we need to forgive. The Course in Miracles says that "all disease comes from a state of unforgiveness," and that "whenever we are ill, we need to look around to see who it is that we need to forgive.
~ Louise L. Hay
Did they go back to curse them?" asked Olivier. "Non," said Ruth. "To forgive them. That was the magic." The wizened Anne Lamarque in Clara's painting was smiling. Happy and free.
~ Louise Penny