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"I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness."
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"Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!"

"Despite the sorrows of sin, you can count on God's faithfulness and forgiveness."

"Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love."

"It is easier to forgive yourself of a thousand misdeeds than to forgive your enemy of one."

"Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past."

"There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret."

"When we forgive someone, we don't pretend that the harm didn't happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness."

"Accomplishments don't erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past."
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