Charles Stanley Quotes

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

Give the other person the ability to save face…. Don’t rub his nose in things.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

I have found that when I have attacked people personally, that's been a stupid mistake on my part. And so whoever I have attacked personally I apologize for.

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him.

Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond the bounds of what is truly human.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

We need to wash the feet of our enemies.

If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.

If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or racial groups or political groups are killing each other, or families have been feuding for years and years, you can see - because you're not particularly invested in that particular argument - that there will never be peace until somebody softens what is rigid in their heart.

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

Advice: Don’t wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you’re related to — gets shot before you work it out.

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.