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Forgiveness Quotes
"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness."
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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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"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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"She had forgotten his faults as we forgetthe sorrows of our departed childhood."
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"Don't apologize for doing what you thought was best. All you can ever do, is your best. Even if that doesn't work out, don't diminish your efforts. Don't diminish your intent. Don't apologize for being human. Don't take on guilt that isn't yours. We are all growing, learning and evolving. Take the lesson forward."
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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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"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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"Anger is easier than forgiveness."
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"Forgiveness simply means to give love instead of hate."
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"He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all."
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"There's no reason to cry over spilled milk. People cannot change the things that have already happened."
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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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"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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"You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I seen her layin there and I thought maybe she wouldn't go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn't and I thought about God forgivin people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killin that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain't sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant but I didn't want to be forgiven if she wasn't. I didn't want to do or be nothin that she wasn't like going to heaven or anything like that."
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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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"Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion."
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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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"That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty."
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"It takes a human being to not do wrong in return."
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"Forgiveness is strength. The strength to move ahead without any resentment."
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"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."
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"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her . . . but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account."
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"Offence is an event, offended is a decision. Offence and offended we have to live through it but to stay offended? To live in that place denies the very nature of the salvation that you claimed to have received."
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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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"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
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"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."
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"What our Heavenly Father wants us to do about our spiritual failures is like what our earthly father wants us to do about our earthly failures. When we fall off the horse, or the bike, or the high road to Heaven, we must simply climb on again as soon as we are aware of the fact that we have fallen off, rather than sitting there stewing in self-pity or self-hatred."
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"I am sure that if we can find reconciliation with our past " whether parents, partners or friends " we should try and do that. It won't be perfect, it will be a compromise . . . but it might mean acceptance and, the big word, forgiveness."
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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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"Forgive those who hurt you yesterday. Reward those who help you today. Remember those who help you tomorrow."
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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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"It's best to be ruthless with the past."
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"Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace."
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"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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"Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don't feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they're stuck right where they started: Guilty."
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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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"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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"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind."
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"The only way we can change an enemy to a friend is by forgiveness."
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"One bad turn does not excuse another."
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"The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped, thank God."
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"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."
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"Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon."
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"Isn't forgiveness a holy virtue? And if so, then why do we insist on keeping historical records of resentment? Is the Creator an advocate of love or hate? And if love, then why are we still pushing so much hatred? What is there ever to be gained from vocalizing hatred? Only more hatred. Who wants that? And why?"
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"Forgiveness is probably the most important self - esteem building process anyone can undertake. Forgiveness is an internal response to the fact that we cannot, under any circumstances, change the past. The only things we can change are our thoughts about the past. Forgiveness happens when we stop wishing for a better past and understand that we are carrying hatred, anger and resentment within us."
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"Forgiveness, no matter your motive, is a dynamic of mutual healing."
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"Someone's forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours."
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