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Forgiveness Quotes
"I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members."
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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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"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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""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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"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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"Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness."
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"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."
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"Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts."
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"You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society."
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"Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!"
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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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"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 is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting."
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"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."
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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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"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 really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual."
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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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"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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"In the photograph by my bed my other is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again."
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"I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness."
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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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"Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget."
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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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"I could forgive you anything but taking my memories. You stepped over the line."
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"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower gives when it is crushed."
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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 giving up the hope that the past could have been any different."
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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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"In the classroom of hatred we learn pain, but love teaches us to forgive."
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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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"It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven."
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"A life lived without forgiveness is a life lived in the past."
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"When you reach out to those you need to forgive, it is you that will be touched and healed."
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"One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious."
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"I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out."
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"Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don't think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back."
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"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life."
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"The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. 'There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting...' (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self - righteous brother would never know."
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"If someone hurts you, to take the revenge, love him."
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"Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for?"
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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 becomes central to Jesus' teaching, because to receive reality is always to 'bear it, to bear with reality for not meeting all of our needs. To accept reality is to forgive reality for being what it is, almost day by day and sometimes even hour by hour. Such a practice creates patient and humble people.Forgiveness reveals three goodnesses simultaneously. When we forgive, we choose the goodness of the other over their faults, we experience God's goodness flowing through ourselves, and we also experience our own capacity for goodness in a way that almost surprises us. We are finally in touch with a much Higher Power, and we slowly learn how to draw upon this Infinite Source."
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"Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody."
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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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"My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance."
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"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
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"Your ability to forgive and let go is the biggest evidence of core strength."
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"Fireheart dashed to the warrior's side. Cloudtail was standing stiff - legged, every hair in his pelt on end as if he were facing an enemy. His eyes were fixed on the limp heap of tabby fur huddled at his paws.'Why, Fireheart?' Cloudtail wailed. 'Why her?'Fireheart knew, but rage and grief made it hard to speak. 'Because Tigerstar wants the pack to get a taste of cat blood, ' he rasped. The dead cat lying in front of them was Brindleface."
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