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Forgiveness Quotes
"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives."
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"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."
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"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."
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"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
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"It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission."
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"Do not take to heart any ill-action."
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"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
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"Without forgiveness, there's no future."
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"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy."
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"If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.Either you just let the grudge go, or make him chary."
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"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."
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"If someone hurts you, to take the revenge, love him."
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"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins."
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"To restore a lost relationship is your choice."
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"God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do."
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"I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility."
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"When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier."
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"Forgiveness is strength. The strength to move ahead without any resentment."
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"Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense."
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"And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad."
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"Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness."
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"We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering]."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower gives when it is crushed."
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"Forgive the past to welcome the future."
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"Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past."
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"Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration health."
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"It takes a human being to not do wrong in return."
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"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
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"Don't just shun them; don't kill them! Don't curse them; don't harm them! Pray for them, for they all a good part of the story; get understanding, and disarm them with wit and wisdom!"
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"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."
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"Forgiveness is another way of saying, "I need to mind my own business."
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"Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow."
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"The only way we can change an enemy to a friend is by forgiveness."
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"One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious."
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"An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness."
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"The remedy for wrongs is to forget them."
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"China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks."
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"To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves."
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"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."
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"Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on."
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"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."
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"Forgiveness brings healing."
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"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."
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"Forgive and be compassionate with another in love, in peace and in faith."
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"Sometimes you have to look past a person's mistakes to see God's presence."
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"There is love in every human heart."
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"Even brahmins [people belonging to the caste who follow ritual practices] will not delve in the past and yet these intellectuals keep remembering, 'This person cheated me. This man called me stupid!' The flow of speech is like the flow of water. How can we ask it, 'How did you come here tumbling down?"
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"If anger-pride-deceit-greed occur, let them occur. There is nothing wrong if you have thoughts of bad conduct, do not be afraid, however, you must repent (do pratikraman) and turn it around, this will result in a high level of dharmadhyan [auspicious contemplation] ."
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