Forgive Quotes
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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
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You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
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A man must learn to forgive himself.
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.
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If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.
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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.
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The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
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My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.
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The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn´t concerned to protect His own integrity. He´s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent.
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I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'
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If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
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Dear God, Please teach me to forgive myself and others. Remove the walls that keep love out, behind which I am a prisoner. Heal my guilt and remove my anger, that I might be reborn. Make gentle my heart and strong my spirit and show me how to love. Please show me how to honor myself. Please teach me how to listen to myself. "Please program my mind to know itself, that I might at last be free. Teach me to appreciate your spirit that lives within me. Show me how to be good to myself, that I might know more fully the goodness of life. Amen.
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Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.
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I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out.
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When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
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I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
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But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.
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He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. "Always," I say to him. "Every time.
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To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.
