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"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
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"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."
"The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith - and He will forgive."
"A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission."
"There's no reason to cry over spilled milk. People cannot change the things that have already happened."
"I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own."
"There is one thing God's love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner."
"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."
"The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional."
"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
"The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped, thank God."
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