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Forgiveness Quotes
"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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"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."
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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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"Can you forgive her? Can you do that?There was no response.Because if you can start to forgive, then it will become easier.And?And then you will be able to forgive yourself-and ask others to forgive you."
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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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"Abandon your resentments, they keep you small."
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"When I found God forgiveness found me."
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"To err is human, to forgive, divine."
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"The best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ..."
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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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"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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"A strong person forgives even the most unforgivable."
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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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"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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"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins."
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"Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness."
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"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."
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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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"May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner."
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"I will never regret not denouncing apartheid."
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"Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts."
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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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"The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive."
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"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."
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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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"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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"To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment."
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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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"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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"Dear God, please take the stains off my heart. If there's even an ounce of pain I feel that someone caused me in the past, I ask that you wash it away. Give me strength, show me forgiveness is the healthiest option for me, and set me free. I pray you give me peace today and every day, allowing me to totally leave my past behind. In Jesus's name, I pray, amen."
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"To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget."
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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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"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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"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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"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."
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"Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting."
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"You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society."
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"Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend."
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"One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!"
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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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"I'm sorry about yesterday," she said.He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens."
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"I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness."
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"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
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"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
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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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"Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual."
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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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"I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred."
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