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"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."
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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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"He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea."
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