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Forgiveness Quotes
"When I found God forgiveness found me."
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"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."
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"In relationships, everyone makes mistakes. If you are forgiven for yours, don't take it for granted."
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"A strong person forgives even the most unforgivable."
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"Maybe the word forgive points in the wrong direction, since it's something you mostly give yourself, not anyone else: you put down the ugly weight of old suffering, untie yourself from the awful, and walk away from it."
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"Abandon your resentments, they keep you small."
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"To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment."
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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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"I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!"
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"I must be out of my mind if I loved you in spite of everything you've done, and anyone else would condemn you for it, but I can't condemn you at all. In my own troubled mind, I loved you for it."
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"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."
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"These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost."
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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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"As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins."
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"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."
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"To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget."
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"Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness."
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"May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner."
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"The best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ..."
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"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
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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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"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."
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"I will never regret not denouncing apartheid."
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"Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend."
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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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"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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"The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive."
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"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
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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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"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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"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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"One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!"
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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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"I hoped and prayed that they would someday forgive me for leaving them. I hoped and prayed that I would someday forgive myself for leaving them."
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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 is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart."
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"Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts."
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"Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another."
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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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"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
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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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"What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you."
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"Love is blind, and therefore not responsible for whoever she bumps into."
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"The remedy for wrongs is to forget them."
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"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."
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"Did she say anything before she died?" he asked."Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive him'""Forgive him?" my father asked."I think she was referring to the drunk driver who killed her."Wow.My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love and tolerance.She wanted us to forgive Gerald, the dumb-ass Spokane Indian alcoholic who ran her over and killed her.I think My Dad wanted to go find Gerald and beat him to death.I think my mother would have helped him.I think I would have helped him, too.But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer.Even dead, she was a better person than us."
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"I'm sorry Penelope." "Don't waste my time with sorries,Simon.If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other's toes,we'll never have time to be friends."
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