Top 14 Miroslav Volf Forgiveness Quotes
#1. The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.
Stephen Daldry
#2. If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.
Miroslav Volf
#3. If forgiveness does take place it will be but an echo of the forgiveness granted by the just and loving God-- the only forgiveness that ultimately matters, because, though we must forgive, in a very real sense no one can either forgive or retain sins 'but God alone.
Miroslav Volf
#5. There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
Siri Hustvedt
#7. How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.
Greta Garbo
#8. One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
Moliere
#9. The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.
Miroslav Volf
#11. Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense
Miroslav Volf
#12. Often I had to explain my reasoning to others. Every time it was exhausting to simplify my logic enough to make it understandable.
Estelle Ryan
#13. If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.
Sharon Salzberg
#14. The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.
Richard Koch