Top 1200 Self Forgiveness Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.

What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

I think forgiveness is overrated, personally, because some things people do are unforgivable.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Reconciliation and forgiveness can actually help all of us move on in a healthier, happier way.

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.

I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry.

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.

Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process.

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Families will always have their trials; be living examples of love, forgiveness, and care

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

We are to extend forgiveness to others in the same way that God did to us: Unconditionally.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.