Being Unable To Forgive Quotes & Sayings

I doubt if it is given to the human being to understand completely the blessed passion and precious death, the mighty resurrection and glorious ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. I know that I do not understand. But I also know that it has nothing to do with the angry unforgiving God who so upset my young friend. If the basic definition of sin is lack of love (that love without which all men are dead in the sight of God, as Cranmer wrote in one of his collects), then an inability to forgive is lack of love, and if God is unable to forgive us then he is lacking in love, and so he is not God. At least, he is not the God who makes glad my heart. — Madeleine L'Engle

I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: "Things will be better when you die," the people of my grandma's generation said as they worked themselves to death. "God wants you to forgive and love those who do you wrong," some people said to shake off the shame of being unable to respond to the abuse they endured. The holier-than-thou faction found comfort in believing, "The rest of y'all are lost because you don't have a personal relationship with God - our God."
But art engages you in the world, not just the world around you but the big world, and not just the big world of Tokyo and Sydney and Johannesburg, but the bigger world of ideas and concepts and feelings of history and humanity. — Wynton Marsalis

In short, I was like Ron Burgundy and in a glass case of emotion. — Melanie Shankle

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health. — Herbert Benson

Remember this although timing in life is everything, memorable moments in history don't just happen! Do something ... stay positive! — Amy Dumas

The program operates on facts, and extrapolates from those facts using a complex series of stochastic functions. — Donna K. Fitch

Suzanne Briet proposed in 1951 that an antelope running wild would not be a document, but an antelope taken into a zoo would be one, — Lisa Gitelman

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami

If you really accept that global warming puts the world at risk, then you think you would be open to any solution that could undo it. — Steven Levitt

Dreams: a door through which the dead return. — Marty Rubin

Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions. — Parul Wadhwa

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility--of being unable to undo what one has done--is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself. — Hannah Arendt

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too. — Rita Mae Brown

Our United States "State religion" has become Secular Humanism which has no "separation from the State. — James C. Campbell

Why is it that those who are the most concerned with manners rarely have any themselves? — Heidi Schulz

In me all affections take place on the surface, but sincerely. I've always been an actor, and in earnest. Whenever I've loved, I've pretended to love, pretending it even to myself. — Fernando Pessoa