Top 1200 Self Forgiveness Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.

The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.

Post-?wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-?pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-?absorption without self-?awareness.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading ? some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.

It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.

Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

You're only human. Let's break free of this gravity of judgment And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.

What in your life allows you to give up to other people, and allows you to forgive others and accept forgiveness.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.