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"If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo."
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"Forgive to be free, let go to grow like a tree."

"Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!"

"Wait, Armand, he heard behind him but kept walking, ignoring the calls. Then he remembered what Emile had meant to him and still did. Did this one bad thing wipe everything else out?That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could forget the good and only remember the bad.But not today. Gamache stopped."

"You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn't go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn't and I thought about God forgivin people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killin that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain't sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant but I didn't want to be forgiven if she wasn't. I didn't want to do or be nothin that she wasn't like going to heaven or anything like that."

"He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all."

"Forgiveness is probably the most important self - esteem building process anyone can undertake. Forgiveness is an internal response to the fact that we cannot, under any circumstances, change the past. The only things we can change are our thoughts about the past. Forgiveness happens when we stop wishing for a better past and understand that we are carrying hatred, anger and resentment within us."

"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."

"To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past."

"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."

"The best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ..."
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"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods."

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."

"Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a legitimate claim has been denied."

"There is always hope if we keep an unsolved problem fairly in view, there's none if we pretend it's not there."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
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