Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!
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Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!
To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.
I am not yet born; Forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words When they speak me, my thoughts when they think me, My treason engendered by traitors beyound me, My life when they murder by means of my hands, my death when they live me.
Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.
Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.
Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.
It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create one set of probabilities; angry, judgmental, critical and defensive will create another one altogether.
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human lives can we get off the guilt trip and back into the flow. That means we must love our humanness and all of our failings; we must accept, learn from, and yes, even love our mistakes.
I # forgive not because I became a saint, but because I'm tired of hating.
You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.
The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.
Forgive yourself - no one else will.
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, 'How all right can he be?'
I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.
Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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