The covetous man is always poor.

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who nevertheless set aside a day of thanksgiving.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving

I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn't a final destination. You don't one day get there and get to stay.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness. It is power.

When love comes easy, forgiving is hard and forgetting even harder.

Learning to forgive is the greatest way to find inner peace.

God forgive me for what I've done. God forgive me for what I will do, and forgive me for what I can't do because my religion won't let me.

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

You must first feel sorry for your sins, to seek the free gift of grace of salvation.

Today's practice is about clearing and releasing the hurts, wounds, and judgments you may hold about or against women. Our experience and expectations of women begins with our mothers. Chances are if...

A key to making Love unconditional is the willingness to forgive. With forgiveness, events and people are re - contextualized as simply "limited" - not "bad" or "unlovable." With humility, we are...

It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God's values, but trust, surrender? Letting go,...

There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.

You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit. Even the Lord's Prayer says it loud and clear: Forgive us our trespasses,...

The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of...

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you...

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. {...} Maybe it's about who can do what to whom...

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

She did not think that those who were late, or the ancestors themselves, would wish punishment upon us, no matter what our transgressions. It was far more likely that there would be love, falling like...

It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch. " He finally whispered, "We also need to forgive ourselves.