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"Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude."
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"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."

"If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it."

"That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty."

"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."

"If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo."

"To restore a lost relationship is your choice."

"Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person."

"Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered."

"Love's voice reverberates with forgiveness across the room of our heart."

"We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we."
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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."

"What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?"

"I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that."

"As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"I always contended that we as a race must not seek to rise from a position of disadvantage to one of advantage, but to create a moral balance in society where democracy and brotherhood would be reality for all men."

"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."
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