Quotes About Forgiveness

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.

Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.

And so how was a human to pray? I didn't know, and yet I prayed. I prayed the terrible prayer: "Thy will be done." Having so prayed, I prayed for strength. That seemed reasonable and right enough. As did praying for forgiveness and the grace to forgive. I prayed unreasonably, foolishly, hopelessly, that everybody in Port William might be blessed and happy—the ones I loved and the ones I did not. I prayed my gratitude

It is useless to try to adjudicate a long-standing animosity by asking who started it or who is the most wrong. The only sufficient answer is to give up the animosity and try forgiveness, to try to love our enemies and to talk to them and (if we pray) to pray for them. If we can't do any of that, then we must begin again by trying to imagine our enemies' children who, like our children, are in mortal danger because of enmity that they did not cause.

And so how was a human to pray? I didn't know, and yet I prayed. I prayed the terrible prayer: "Thy will be done." Having so prayed, I prayed for strength. That seemed reasonable and right enough. As did praying for forgiveness and the grace to forgive. I prayed unreasonably, foolishly, hopelessly, that everybody in Port William might be blessed and happy—the ones I loved and the ones I did not. I prayed my gratitude. The

It is a serious fault in a man to dislike a boy

Until you can give up being a judge of yourself and others, you cannot begin a search into compassion.

she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this off with the head attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?

We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.

I am the enemy you killed, my friend I knew you in this dark, for so you frowned Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed I parried, but my hands were loath and cold Let us sleep now.

Forgive me, dear Mr. Troy! I am very unhappy, and very unreasonable—but I am only a woman, and you must not expect too much from me.

He was an object to laugh at - he was an object to weep over. His enemies, if a creature so wretched could have had enemies, would have forgiven him, on seeing him in his new dress. His friends - had any of his friends been left - would have been less distressed if they had looked at him in his coffin, than if they had looked at him as he was now.

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