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Forgiveness Quotes


"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives."


"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."


"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."


"Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget."


"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."


"If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption."


"Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past."


"Forgiveness is the best tonic for heart."


"God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do."


"I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility."


"When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier."


"Forgiveness reveals the ultimate beauty of life."


"If someone hurts you, to take the revenge, love him."


"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."


"Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem."


"The only way we can change an enemy to a friend is by forgiveness."


"One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious."


"The remedy for wrongs is to forget them."


"China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks."


"To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves."


"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."


"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins."


"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."


"And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad."


"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."


"Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness."


"You can never forgive yourself without forgiving others. Forgive others to find and create peace in your soul."


"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."


"Forgive to set yourself free, love to set the prisoner free."


"Forgiveness takes away the burdens of past."


"These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost."


"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."


"There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges-the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light."


"I will never regret not denouncing apartheid."


"If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it."


"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."


"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."


"When you forgive everyone, you have no one to fight."


"Forgiveness with kindness is the best revenge."


"The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace."


"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."


"Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation."


"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."


"It is easier to forgive yourself of a thousand misdeeds than to forgive your enemy of one."


"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."


"Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting."
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