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Forgiveness Quotes
"You became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close..."
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"To restore a lost relationship is your choice."
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"Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion."
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"Forgive for yourself and for the peace it will bring to your pain."
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"Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody."
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"I felt ashamed for having judged him so harshly without knowing the real boy. His one offense against me-goaded by Charlie's bullying character-was easy to forgive."
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"If someone can't forgive, it's because he does not love."
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"No one can claim perfection, that's why everyone needs a second chance ad infinitum."
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"I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him."
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"There is strength in forgiveness."
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"It takes a human being to not do wrong in return."
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"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."
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"Ultimately all kinds of fights end at forgiveness."
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"Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?"
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"You may have committed a very bad fault but if you repent for it a lot; if you repent 'heartily' for it; the fault will have to go away. But people don't repent 'heartily', do they? They just say superficially that 'it was my fault'!"
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"Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."
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"We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past."
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"If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root."
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"When Victoria told me how intensely she hated me, I kept the Beretta aimed at her face, but heard myself say, "I don't hate you."She called me an effing liar and said, "Hate makes the world go around. Envy, lust and hate.""I stopped hating anyone the day when I realized hating can't restore to me anything that's lost."
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"Accomplishments don't erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past."
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"There is one thing God's love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner."
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"There is no amount of sin a loving heart cannot forgive."
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"Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke."
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"A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well.God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen."
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"Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering."
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"Thank God for forgiveness of my sins."
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"I believe what Jesus said was, 'I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is required that you forgive all men."
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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 cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."
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"There are an incalculable-even infinite-number of situations in which we can practice forgiveness. Expecting it to be a singular action-motivated by the sheer imperative to move on and forget-can be more damaging than the original feelings of anger. Accepting forgiveness as pluralistic and as an ongoing, individualized process opens us up to realize the role that our own needs play in conflict resolution."
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"Forgive all before you go to sleep, you'll be forgiven before you get up. " Lord Krishna."
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"Forgive and forget ugliness. Look around to find beauty and focus on it."
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"I could forgive you anything but taking my memories. You stepped over the line."
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"To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves."
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"Please understand. Please forgive me.I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful.Don't hate me.I still love you."
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"Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts."
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"Forgive yourself and you will be happy. Forgive everything and you will be happiest."
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"Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way."
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"To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past."
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"Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!"
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"Love's voice reverberates with forgiveness across the room of our heart."
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"Forgiveness is a process of accepting the past and welcoming the mysterious beauty of the future."
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"We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention."
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"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
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"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."
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"Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back."
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"Pretending,' she looked at the garden, 'is not the truth.''But you said two true things, right ? One, you hate this girl. Two, you want her to feel better. If you decide that the wanting truth's more important than the hating truth, just tell her you've forgiven her, even if you haven't. At least she'd feel better. Maybe that'd make you feel better too.'Madame Crommelynck studied her hands, moodily, both sides. 'Sophistry', she pronounced. I'm not sure what 'sophistry' means so I kept shtum."
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"Don't just shun them; don't kill them! Don't curse them; don't harm them! Pray for them, for they all a good part of the story; get understanding, and disarm them with wit and wisdom!"
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