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Forgiveness Quotes
"There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges-the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light."
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"When you forgive everyone, you have no one to fight."
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"The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace."
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"If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumbered hereWhile these visions did appear.And this weak and idle theme,No more yielding but a dream,Gentles, do not reprehend:If you pardon, we will mend:And, as I am an honest Puck,If we have unearned luckNow to 'scape the serpent's tongue,We will make amends ere long;Else the Puck a liar call;So, good night unto you all.Give me your hands, if we be friends,And Robin shall restore amends."
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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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"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."
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"Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting."
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"Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done."
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"Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person."
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"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."
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"Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget."
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"I tend to walk around convinced that any amount of forgiveness that I could extend could never possibly compensate for the offenses that I've had to endure. Yet, maybe the greater offense is that I've got that backwards."
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"Forgive those who hurt you yesterday. Reward those who help you today. Remember those who help you tomorrow."
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"For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?"
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"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."
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"It's best to be ruthless with the past."
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"Forgive and forget ugliness. Look around to find beauty and focus on it."
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"Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions."
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"If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo."
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"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"
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"When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge."
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"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."
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"We need to extend forgiveness to all who have hurt us. Forgive others who have trespass you just as your Heavenly Father forgives you. God's grace is the power to forgiveness."
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"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
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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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"We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention."
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
"When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present."
"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."
"Forgiveness is the best tonic for heart."
"Forgiveness reveals the ultimate beauty of life."
"When you reach out to those you need to forgive, it is you that will be touched and healed."
"Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem."
"But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?"
"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."
"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind."
"To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget. Mirabeau had no memory for insults and vile actions done to him and was unable to forgive simply because he - forgot. Such a man shakes off with a single shrug the many vermin that eat deep into others."
"Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered."
"You are so much more than your mistakes."
"My brother asked the birds to forgive him: that sounds senseless, but it is right; for all is like an ocean, all is flowing and blending; a touch in one place sets up movement at the other end of the earth. It may be senseless to beg forgiveness of the birds, but birds would be happier at your side "a little happier, anyway" and children and all animals, if you yourself were nobler than you are now. It's all like an ocean, I tell you. Then you would pray to the birds too, consumed by an all-embracing love in a sort of transport, and pray that they too will forgive you your sin."
"People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!"
"I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years."
"One bad turn does not excuse another."
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