Top 1200 Forgive Your Enemies Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers – the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?

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Enemies are so stimulating.

I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.

We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.

And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning - enemies of society, as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!

The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you.

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

Words don't come easily, like forgive me.

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? -Eriond

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe.

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

How can you not forgive someone who made you a better person?

To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'.

People will like you who never met you, they think you're absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don't want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don't like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that's reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it's not reasonable, so that somewhere it's jingoist extremism.

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

The brave only know how to forgive.

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

Help, love, forgive, and create beauty.

Life is too short for resentments, and I always forgive.

Some of those 10, nine-year vets, they know some things that your typical college senior wouldn't. I've come across some guards in the NFL that know how to use their hands better than D-linemen in college. I guess they've learned from their enemies.

Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

But even if you should betray me, I will forgive you.

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

I can always forgive and forget if I care about someone.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

All are my friends. I have no enemies.

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

Forgive me for allowing myself to be hurt by you so easily.

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.

My father is my hero. No matter what, I'll always forgive him.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis?

I usually do not travel with my enemies.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.

Showing weakness will encourage your opponents. It inspires them. It encourages them to hit harder. To come faster. But when you don't show any fear, or when you don't show any hurt, you have the opportunity to discourage your opponent. You discourage your enemies. The bottom line is, if you think properly, you don't even have to think about all of that. All you have to think about is that guy across from me is human, and so am I. And he'll never out-work me. He'll never out-think me. And if you can't out-work me, and you can't out-think me, you'll never beat me.

I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.

The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.

In the olden days, a memoir was something written by Churchill and people like that, because they had a grand experience and considered it useful for future generations. And then it became what it became - a public purging in which other people have the chance to judge you and then forgive you, perhaps learning something from your sorry example.

I have no enemies and no hatred.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

It is essential to forgive. Otherwise it stunts the growth.

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

Love is hard to offend and quick to forgive. How easily do you get irritated and offended? Some people live by the motto, “Never pass up an opportunity to get upset with your spouse.” When something goes wrong, they quickly take full advantage of it by expressing how hurt or frustrated they are. But this is the opposite reaction of love.

When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.