Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

I got no hate in me.

I am not able of hating. I am not able of hating.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

My aim in life is not to judge.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

It takes too much energy to hate.

I can never hold a grudge against anyone, even if I know that he has done something wrong to me.

The hardest thing to do when people are hurting you is to remain a decent person.

My father always tells me to be forgiving, as it purges you of pent-up negativity. I harbour no bitterness and malice towards anyone.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.

Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.

Blessed is he who will not be offended

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.