Zitat des Tages über Vergeben / Forgiven:
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.
All things can be forgiven if we can progress.
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Nothing in the Middle East is ever forgotten or forgiven.
Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.
Forgotten is forgiven.
I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.
When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down. I was making cheese on toast when flames escaped from the grill. My father stopped the fire with blind panic and excessive water. I was forgiven, but it put me off cooking for years.
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that debt is wrong and should be punished is a feature of a moral economy.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Glenda Jackson called me an amateur in 1976 when we were in a play, 'The White Devil.' I've never forgiven her.
The individual who desires to have his sins forgiven, must seek for it through the blood of Jesus. The individual who desires to get power over sin, must likewise seek it through the blood of Jesus.
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
The writers who inspire me most are all women: Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. As for contemporary novels, one of my favourites is 'Everyone Brave is Forgiven' by Chris Cleave. It's the sort of book to read if you've fallen out of love with reading - it reminds you just how brilliant novels can be.
I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.
Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.
What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
If a magician makes a mistake, it's sometimes forgiven by the audience. If a gambling cheat makes a mistake, they will almost certainly lose their lives - and probably in a horrible manner.
I have forgiven those who were persecuting me.
It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.
No sin, especially no great sin, is just a harm done to the individual who commits it. I believe myself that the future of the human race is bound up with that idea. The soul that is conscious of a grievous sin is conscious of a great harm done to the community - to someone else. That common hurt should now be forgiven.
She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that.
Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.
The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.