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Forgiveness Quotes
"We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop."
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"One who forgives his enemies conquers them, one who loves his enemies conquers himself."
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"Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past."
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"Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration health."
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"Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot."
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"You are so much more than your mistakes."
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"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."
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"One bad turn does not excuse another."
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"If you punish them, they are your slaves and if you forgive them they are your brothers."
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"Ultimately all kinds of fights end at forgiveness."
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"Forgiveness brings healing."
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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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"Do not wallow in your mistakes. Do not grovel and prostrate yourself in hopes of forgiveness. We all make mistakes. Apologize and move forward. Do not replay the event in your head. Do not continue to beat yourself up. Do not profusely explain, defend yourself, make excuses or blame. After you apologize, do no more explaining; never explain more than once - ever."
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"To be social is to be forgiving."
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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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"Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for non-reaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence."
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"She would not allow herself to remember how Note had treated her, and many others too, she suspected. She had forgiven him, yes, but she still did not like to remember. And perhaps a deliberate act of forgetting went along with forgiveness. You forgave, and then you said to yourself: Now I shall forget. Because if you did not forget, then your forgiveness would be tested, perhaps many times and in ways that you could not resist, and you might go back to anger, and to hating."
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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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"Forgiveness simply means to give love instead of hate."
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"There is no need returning anger to those who made your past horrible, do not think of making them feel bitter, maybe a help from you can just make them ashame and miserable, and can probably change their attitude."
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"Thank God for forgiveness of my sins."
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"I tend to walk around convinced that any amount of forgiveness that I could extend could never possibly compensate for the offenses that I've had to endure. Yet, maybe the greater offense is that I've got that backwards."
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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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"Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion."
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"Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more."
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"It's best to be ruthless with the past."
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"Forgive and forget ugliness. Look around to find beauty and focus on it."
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"In this world, if you raise objections saying, 'my mother-in-law harasses me. My father-in-law harasses me', then there is no end to it. Instead, just put up a sign that says, 'no objection whatsoever!' Even if someone comes raising objection [issues with you], you do not let any problems with him, can you or can you not keep it that way?"
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"There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret."
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"When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself--well, you can forgive yourself for those."
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"Anger slowly. Forgive quickly. Trust cautiously. Love easily."
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"The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith - and He will forgive."
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"We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked."
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"There is strength in forgiveness."
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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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"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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"Forgiveness reveals the ultimate beauty of life."
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"Forgiveness is another way of saying, "I need to mind my own business."
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"Forgiveness is always worthy because it's worth."
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"People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!"
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"The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped, thank God."
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"Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon."
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"You can never forgive yourself without forgiving others. Forgive others to find and create peace in your soul."
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"Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It's not only possible, it's essential."
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"Whenever you hold a grudge towards someone, you're only hurting you. Because the other person could care less about the emotions you're going through. Their main objective was to hurt you. Now you must let go, move on, and focus on your life. Don't continue to burden your spirit."
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"Remember that many "negative" people were conditioned by people with smaller minds and hearts, so forgive them."
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