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Forgiveness Quotes
"Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness."
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"Forgiving someone else doesn't give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on."
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"To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment."
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"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."
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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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"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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"Abandon your resentments, they keep you small."
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"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"A strong person forgives even the most unforgivable."
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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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"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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"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."
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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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"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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"Such grave matters as sin and forgiveness should remain between man and God."
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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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"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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"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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"Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts."
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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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"You betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean..."
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"Love is blind, and therefore not responsible for whoever she bumps into."
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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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"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
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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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"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."
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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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"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."
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"The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?"
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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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"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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"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."
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"I will never regret not denouncing apartheid."
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"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."
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"Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend."
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"To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget."
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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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"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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"The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit."
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"What I've learned over the years is that people shouldn't be defined by a single mistake. Everyone messes up," she said. "You have to forgive yourself and move one."
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"One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!"
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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 canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one."
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"Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another."
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