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Forgiveness Quotes
"Repentance restores your relationship with God."
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"You are so much more than your mistakes."
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"Over done forgotten gone now my troubles will move on."
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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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"It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do."
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"I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years."
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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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"Ultimately all kinds of fights end at forgiveness."
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"How insane we are as humans when having received a nasty offense we return the same awful offense. If given an apple found to be rotten and wormy, would we not toss it aside rather than force a soul to eat it? Offenses should be discarded, not returned."
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"Forgiveness brings healing."
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"I am not stopping till my enemies become my friends."
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"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."
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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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"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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"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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"Forgive to set yourself free, love to set the prisoner free."
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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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"When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'"
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"Forgiveness takes away the burdens of past."
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"We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we."
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"Even brahmins [people belonging to the caste who follow ritual practices] will not delve in the past and yet these intellectuals keep remembering, 'This person cheated me. This man called me stupid!' The flow of speech is like the flow of water. How can we ask it, 'How did you come here tumbling down?"
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"Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration of health."
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"Someone's forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours."
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"You (must) do plenty of 'pratikraman'. Do the 'pratikraman' for an hour every day of everyone who is living around you, whomever you have harassed."
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"Your ability to forgive and let go is the biggest evidence of core strength."
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"The lack of forgiveness and ingratitude leads unhappiness."
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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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"I wouldn't think that God is quite as much concerned with whether or not one actually sins as He is with whether or not in one's heart one genuinely wants to turn from sin; and therefore, continues working passionately with Him in doing so. It is not some pleasure of God's, as some might imagine, to stand around critiquing, arms crossed, holding a whip. I suppose that when someone weeps over their sins, He extends His hands; He wants them to lift their head and embrace Him and the mercy He's willing to show. But when someone is proud of their sins, He delivers His justice swiftly and righteously. Sin does not intimidate God - although He takes it very seriously - it does no real harm to Him whatsoever, only to the sinner and to other people: and He loves people."
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"Forgiveness is about your peace of mind. When you don't forgive, you are the one who suffers."
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"She had forgotten his faults as we forgetthe sorrows of our departed childhood."
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"I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own."
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"Since I've been home I've been trying hard to mend my relationship with my mother. Asking her to do things for me instead of brushing aside any offer of help, as I did for years out of anger. Letting her handle all the money I won. Returning her hugs instead of tolerating them. My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father's death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them."
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"You became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close..."
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"Forgiveness is the fruit of fellowship."
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"If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it."
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"Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget."
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"You will find it possible to forgive when you realize that forgiveness is self remedy."
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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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"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
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"When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you."
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"There is no sin that Jesus cannot forgive."
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"Forgiveness with kindness is the best revenge."
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"It is natural for a person to make a mistake (commit a fault). What is the way to become free from that? Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] can show it, (which is) 'Pratikraman'."
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"A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go."
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"To love those who hate us is to refuse to borrow their hatred."
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"A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission."
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"Forgiveness simply means to give love instead of hate."
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