A Quote by Saint Augustine
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
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Forgiveness: You cannot afford to withhold forgiveness. Nothing will destroy your life more surely, for there is a great hidden grief in the denial of forgiveness. Your heart is so heavy from what you have not forgiven that you bear the offenses of another as if they were your own.
To not forgive is to drink a little poison each day and expect the other person to die.
It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.
Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?
God's kiss of forgiveness sucks the poison out of the wound.
Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman where he's talking about the Duke of Death that Richard Harris played, and he's basically demolishing this myth of this man very unwesternly - not what you expect in a western.
Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.
People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they?
The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.
Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
It's been rumored for almost a year that Tormund was going out and stuff like that. But that's 'Game of Thrones.' The people you think are going to die don't die. Then people will die in a moment when you did not expect them to die.
Expect poison from the standing water.
When men die, they die in fear", he said. "They take everything they need from you, and as a doctor it is your job to give it, to comfort them, to hold their hand. But children die how they have been living - in hope. They don't know what's happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand - but you end up needing them to hold yours. With children, you're on your own. Do you understand?
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