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Forgiveness Quotes
"Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another."
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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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"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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"You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society."
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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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"The remedy for wrongs is to forget them."
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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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"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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"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."
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"Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual."
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"Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others."
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"Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts."
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"A life lived without forgiveness is a life lived in the past."
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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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"Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different."
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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 leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness."
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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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"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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"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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"Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!"
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"I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?"
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"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."
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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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"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 must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting."
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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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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower gives when it is crushed."
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"Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget."
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"My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance."
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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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"In the classroom of hatred we learn pain, but love teaches us to forgive."
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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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"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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"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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"Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody."
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"Every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us."
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"True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound shows itself in different ways."
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"If someone hurts you, to take the revenge, love him."
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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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