Zitat des Tages über Verzeihen / Forgive:
You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.
I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.
If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.
Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.
'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.
There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
God will forgive me. It's his job.
Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.
It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
I have published a proclamation: 'Forgive us our transgressions as we forgive those who transgress against us.' I have ordered all citizens to return to their parishes to enjoy the benefits of this general amnesty.
Can you really forgive if you can't forget?
A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
