Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.
I believe in forgiveness.
I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.
I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.
I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.
We have to look at loan forgiveness to incentivise young people to pursue degrees in areas where we know we need help.
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.
Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.
Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.
There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.
Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.
Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
We need Grace and forgiveness.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.
I think when you're happy, emotions are right near the top - mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily... and I beg for forgiveness easily.
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.