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"What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you."
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"Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity."
"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness."
"We need to extend forgiveness to all who have hurt us. Forgive others who have trespass you just as your Heavenly Father forgives you. God's grace is the power to forgiveness."
"We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked."
"I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him."
"The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith - and He will forgive."
"Do not carry the burden of self-judgment. You are forgiven and pardoned."
"Ignore those who resent you. Avoid those who begrudge you. Excuse those who envy you. Pity those who hate you."
"When you forgive your enemy, you may no longer have one."
"One who forgives his enemies conquers them, one who loves his enemies conquers himself."
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"But it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. So how do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?"
"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it."
"She didn't like it when religious folks looked down on her for being an atheist; but to be honest, I didn't see how this was any different from the way she looked down on people for being Christians."
"When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along."
"Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't."
"I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?"
"A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up."
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