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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 canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one."
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"If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it."
"We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we."
"To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves."
"Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you."
"It's in the nature of the humans and the entire animal kingdom to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. But what makes us true humans is the power to not hit back."
"Seeking revenge is like reaching out for your own personal turmoil, it's never worth it. Righteousness will always come through Jesus Christ."
"Forgiveness is the highest form of a gift of kindness and it brings freedom from the prison of hatred and revenge."
"Forgive and love again."
"Vengeance and forgiveness are about reconciling the accounts, but accounting is an ugly description of the tangled ways we're connected. I sometimes think everything comes out even in the end, but an end that arches beyond the horizon, beyond our capacity to perceive or measure, and that in many cases those who trespass against you do so out of a misery that means the punishment preceded and even precipitated the crime. Maybe that's acceptance."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere."
"Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it."
"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."
"If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost."
"Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause."
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