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Forgiveness Quotes
"But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer."
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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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"If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root."
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"At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable."
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"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
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"You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things."
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"A forgiven Christian is a forgiving Christian."
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"There is no sin that Jesus cannot forgive."
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"She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply."
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"One forgives to the degree that one loves."
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"I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man."
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"It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn't mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude."
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"To restore a lost relationship is your choice."
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"There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on."
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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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"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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"One who forgives his enemies conquers them, one who loves his enemies conquers himself."
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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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"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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"But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?"
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"When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls."
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"Repentance restores your relationship with God."
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"Ultimately all kinds of fights end at forgiveness."
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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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"I could never hate you, even if I wanted to."
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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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"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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"There are some who say that you should forgive everyone, even the people whohave disappointed you immeasurably. There are others who say you should not forgive anyone, and should stomp off in a huff no matter how many times they apologize. Of these two philosophies, the second one is of course much more fun, but it can also grow exhausting to stomp off in a huff every time someone has disappointed you, as everyone disappoints everyone eventually, and one can't stomp off in a huff every minute of the day."
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"Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude."
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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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"Nature will forgive those who accept their own mistakes and not blame God for them. When God is not the doer of anything at all, one takes on grave liability by saying that God did it."
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"We were so little when you took away all our sins."
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"You will find it possible to forgive when you realize that forgiveness is self remedy."
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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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"It is easier to forgive yourself of a thousand misdeeds than to forgive your enemy of one."
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"Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice."
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"Fuck the ones who hurt you Stop thinking about them, Get on with your own lifeThey'll eventually come back with apologies And you'll gladly accept them; as you keep growing with your life."
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"It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?"
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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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"Thank God for forgiveness of my sins."
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"A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls."
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"The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another."
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"Let's forgive someone for Valentines day, it's a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto."
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"Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper I can kill them off."
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"You have divine grace to forgive."
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"I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry."
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"Loving those who hate us means wantonly setting the stage and orchestrating the situation in a way that's sure to result in a production of great personal calamity. But to not love them is an even greater calamity."
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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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