Forgiveness Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr Download Open image “Forgiveness is the final form of love.” — Reinhold Niebuhr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forgiveness Love
What if Forgiveness? The simplest meaning is Forgiveness is the final form of love. — DeBrainy DeGreat Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the best form of love. It takes a strong person to say sorry and an even stronger person to forgive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ''the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society. Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share
“Lord I come before you, I repent all my sins; forgive me. I repent on behalf of my children forgive them Lord. Help them… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is not saying, What you did to me is okay. It is saying, Im not going to let what you did to me ruin my happiness forever. Forgiveness is the answer. It doesnt mean youre erasing the past, or forgetting what happened. It means youre letting go of the resentment and pain, and instead choosing to learn from the… — Nate Copy Share
“So in practicing blanket forgiveness you first assume that in any current condition of pain or discomfort there is some anger involved, even if you don’t know what it’s about. Then you touch the area of your body that is in pain or discomfort with the fingers of either hand and say, “Whatever this is related to, I forgive it… — Serge Kahili King Copy Share
Do what is given to you, and do it well, and you will have done enough...live together in the forgiveness of your sins. Forgive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one. — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
A Real Boyfriend does the sweetest things randomly because he never wants her to feel unappreciated. — Enhance Dreams Copy Share Image
“(Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters.” — Daniel McHugh Copy Share Image
Friendship means understanding, not argument. it means forgiveness, not forgetting. it means the memories last, even if contact is lost. — Sokhom Copy Share Image
Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness,… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Have an open mind and heart. Learn to journey in understanding and forgiveness. It's not always going to be easy but it will be… — Alexandra Elle Copy Share Image
Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
