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Forgiveness Quotes
"When you reach out to those you need to forgive, it is you that will be touched and healed."
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"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."
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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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"The remedy for wrongs is to forget them."
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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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"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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"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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"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
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"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."
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"Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual."
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"We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness."
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"Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget."
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"Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong."
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"At last he understood that he has always been forgiven and worthy of love,and that no one could take that from him, that not even he could take that from himself."
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"Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness."
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"Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you."
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"To err is human, to forgive, divine."
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"I'm sorry about yesterday," she said.He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens."
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"Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn't depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
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"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
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"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."
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"Forgiveness, no matter your motive, is a dynamic of mutual healing."
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"We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering]."
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"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."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower gives when it is crushed."
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"Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts."
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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."
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"I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members."
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"On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level."
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"The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency."
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"To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget."
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"To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment."
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"I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness."
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"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'"
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"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."
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"Instead of hating someone, pray for that person. Don't forget to pray for yourself as well, that you may learn how to let go and forgive."
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"It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody."
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"Forgive those whose actions are the outcome of their personality, and forget those whose personalities are the outcome of their actions."
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"Frank didn't drop you on purpose, she said. "He's not like that. He's just a little clumsy sometimes."Oops, Leo said, in his best Frank Zhang voice. "Dropped Leo into a squad of enemy soldiers. Dang it!"
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"You betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean..."
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"He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless."
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"Such grave matters as sin and forgiveness should remain between man and God."
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"If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption."
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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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