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Forgiveness Quotes
"Forgive and forget ugliness. Look around to find beauty and focus on it."
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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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"Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts."
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"Anger slowly. Forgive quickly. Trust cautiously. Love easily."
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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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"The most devastating thing Finney could have said. Not that Peter was hated by his father. But that he'd been loved all along. He'd interpreted kindness as cruelty, generosity as meanness, support as tethers. How horrible to have been offered love, and to have chosen hate instead. He'd turned heaven into hell."
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"You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on."
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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 is always worthy because it's worth."
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"He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the chairs pushed in under the kitchen table. 'You are beautiful'. No one had ever looked me in the eyes and said that. Eric to Sookie, Page 208."
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"Forgiveness brings healing."
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"Sometimes you have to look past a person's mistakes to see God's presence."
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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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"It became clear to him that all the dreadful evil he had been witnessing in prisons and jails and the quiet self-satisfaction of the perpetrators of this evil were the consequences of men trying to do what was impossible; trying to correct evil while being evil themselves...Now he saw clearly what all the terrors he had seen came from, and what ought to be done to put a stop to them. The answer he could not find was the same that Christ gave to Peter. It was that we should forgive always an infinite number of times because there are no men who have not sinned themselves, and therefore none can punish or correct others."
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"We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we."
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"If anger-pride-deceit-greed occur, let them occur. There is nothing wrong if you have thoughts of bad conduct, do not be afraid, however, you must repent (do pratikraman) and turn it around, this will result in a high level of dharmadhyan [auspicious contemplation] ."
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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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"The lack of forgiveness and ingratitude leads unhappiness."
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"What happens when you give people a 2nd chance? They blame you for it. What happens when you give people a 3rd chance? They ridicule you. What happens when you give them a 4th chance? They make sure they will have a 5th. What happens when you give them a 5th? They blame you for everything and laugh at you. What happens when you give them a 6th? At this point, they try to kill you by accident before you even have another chance of living them. What happens when you give them a 7th chance? They punish you for all the chances you have given them before and betray you in the most horrible way they can, proving that they didn't deserve not even one chance at anything. Forgiveness is not for everyone, and those that deserve it never reach the point of even needing it."
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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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"I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own."
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"Without forgiveness and love, you will live with resentment, bitterness, malice and strife which result in more pain. You can never love without forgiving. Forgiveness deepens your ability to love and frees you from pain."
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"When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you."
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"The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace."
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"To love those who hate us is to refuse to borrow their hatred."
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"I don't pretend to love someone who hurts me.I do something that prevent us hurting each other."
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"To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough."
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"There is no amount of sin a loving heart cannot forgive."
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"Seeking revenge is like reaching out for your own personal turmoil, it's never worth it. Righteousness will always come through Jesus Christ."
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"Isn't it strange that most of the people who find it very difficult to forgive others, are usually the same ones who expect others to forgive them for their wrongdoings?"
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"When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes."
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"Despite the sorrows of sin, you can count on God's faithfulness and forgiveness."
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"Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable faith means believing the unbelievable and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless."
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"When you see the members of your household as faultless (nirdosh) and see only your own faults, then true pratikraman will be done."
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"Forgiveness heals any brokenness in the heart."
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"Where there is love, there are no faults. Where the love of give-and-take (dealer) arose, all faults will be seen there."
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"When we forgive someone, we don't pretend that the harm didn't happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness."
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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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"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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"No one can claim perfection, that's why everyone needs a second chance ad infinitum."
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"Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends."
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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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"I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart."
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"You don't ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it."
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"Forgiveness is another way of saying, "I need to mind my own business."
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"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were."
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"You are so much more than your mistakes."
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