Quotes About Forgiveness

one should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for revelling in the misfortunes of another.

Saying sorry does not make you look small—it makes you look big." "I think so too," said Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni. "But some people are small inside, and if you're small inside, you can't be big outside. It just won't come to you.

She would not allow herself to remember how Note had treated her, and many others too, she suspected. She had forgiven him, yes, but she still did not like to remember. And perhaps a deliberate act of forgetting went along with forgiveness. You forgave, and then you said to yourself: Now I shall forget. Because if you did not forget, then your forgiveness would be tested, perhaps many times and in ways that you could not resist, and you might go back to anger, and to hating.

Want of courage is the last thing to be pardoned by young men, who usually look upon bravery as the chief of all human virtues, and the excuse for every possible fault.

Perhaps you'd like, you gentle fellow, To hear what I'm prepared to say On kinfolk and their implications? Well, here's my view of close relations: They're people whom we're bound to prize, To honor, love, and idolize, And following the old tradition, To visit come the Christmas feast, Or send a wish by mail at least; All other days they've our permission, To quite forget us if they please- So grant them, God, long life and ease!

I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago.

You're not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.

What was the use of love if all it did was ruin things?

Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you.

but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.

Gli uomini veramente generosi sono sempre pronti a divenire compassionevoli allorché la disgrazia del nemico supera i limiti del loro odio.

I have forgiven the world for the love of you;

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.

If a man has tortured and killed your father, your mother, your sweetheart, in short, one of those beings who leave an eternal emptiness and a perpetually bleeding wound when they are torn from your heart, do you think society has given you sufficient reparation because the blade of the guillotine has passed between the murderer's trapezius and his occipital bone, because the who made you undergo long years of mental and emotional suffering has undergone a few seconds of physical pain?

I am he whom you sold and dishonored — I am he whose betrothed you prostituted — I am he upon whom you trampled that you might raise yourself to fortune — I am he whose father you condemned to die of hunger — I am he whom you also condemned to starvation, and who yet forgives you, because he hopes to be forgiven - I am Edmund Dantes!

Forgiveness is not a gift you give someone else, forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself.

So when someone would love to see you fail, forgive them, and draw upon that motivation to succeed.

He'd sit and listen to Nana's Jesus stories all day, but when she turned to the Old Testament prophets, Louis Valentine's little face would darken. He said, "I hate it when God is mean!

The people of God do not serve Him in order to be forgiven but because we are forgiven.

Puedes encontrar toda la gama de emociones humanas a lo largo de los 150 salmos. Júbilo, frustración, desaliento, culpa, perdón, gozo, gratitud, el trato con los enemigos, contentamiento, descontento —y todo lo demás que puedas estar pensando ahora—: todo se encuentran en el libro de los Salmos.