“I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantMightAbleMotherFatherForgetBrotherTreatsForgivingHonestlyTreatedAdversariesGrudgeOlder Brother Author:Monte Irvin
“Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise” WayMindFatherLordMankindPraiseForgivingDearDeeperFoolishReverenceDear Lord Author:John Greenleaf Whittier
“Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' -- People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.” PeopleKnowsMaySaidFatherJesusForgivingAddGood Sense Book:The Great Secret or Occultism Unveiled Source: The Great Secret or Occultism Unveiled
“Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.” IfsMenFatherDoubtForgivingBraveRememberedNo DoubtMakersSurvivedBullsPosterityBrave ManForgetfulIndictmentAgamemnon Author:Boyle Roche
“If you feel sincerely sorry on account of your sins, and believe that Christ is able and willing to forgive you, the work is done. You may trust with all the confidence of a child who confesses his fault, and casts himself into his father's arms. This is faith; a simple trust in the power and willingness of the Father to forgive, for the sake of what Christ the Son has done.” IfsFeelsBelieveMayChildrenDoneAbleFatherChristSinSimpleWillingSonArmsAccountsForgivingFaultsSorrySakeCastsWillingnessSincerely Author:Samuel I. Prime
“When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.” ThinkingKnowsGivingSaidFatherJesusCrossesForgivingLovelyAttractiveBetrayAgonyActs Of Love Author:Timothy Keller
“Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.” PeopleKnowsWayHeartMayArtStillsMightEyeLastsNightFatherPrayerKnownLordWatchesJudgingGloryCrossesForgivingTheeWeepingAmenHanging On Book:Adam Bede Source: Adam Bede
“It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man's life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can't do that because we don't know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one.” KnowsMenLittlesWould BeLife IsMotherFatherKnow HowToo MuchReadyForgivingMentorOur FatherCan't Forgive Author:Frank Pittman
“We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.” LittlesStillsProblemSeemsRunningMotherFatherToo MuchWillingBlameForgivingTerrorShrinksMother Love Author:Frank Pittman
“Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.” MenCharacterFormFatherJudgingDutyForgivingGentleCharacteristicsAvenging Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.” KnowsWantTryingChildrenFatherStruggleChildhoodStyleIdentityBattleOur ChildrenVictimForgivingLoyaltyRangeFierceOur FatherLearn To ForgiveParenting Styles Author:Augustus Napier
“It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.” PeoplePastFallFatherSinForgetCasesGenerationsSonForgivingRefuseInnocentUnfortunateForgive And ForgetSins Of The FatherPast Wrongs Author:E. A. Bucchianeri