Forgiveness Quotes
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Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.
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Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
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Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
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Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.
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Forgiveness allowed me to wash my burdened past away.
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Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.
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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
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God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your Name to the Nations: we are deeply saddened by the behaviour of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer, and asking your forgiveness we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the Covenant.
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Forgiveness is God's command.
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The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.
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The Eucharist is an opportunity of grace and conversion. It's also a time of forgiveness of sins, so my hope would be that grace would be instrumental in bringing people to the truth.
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The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.
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I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.
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Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately.
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Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.
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In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.
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I had been confused why I had gotten cancer. Three weeks later, I saw the network of causation so clearly I wondered why I wasn't more disease-riddled. My healer reminded me that if health is based on forgiveness, then I had to forgive ...
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You turned your guilt into resentment, because that seems easier to face. You won't move on until you turn it back into guilt, and then into forgiveness for yourself.
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Perhaps one could say I've worked in South Africa too long, but I believe in forgiveness, especially when a person admits a mistake, asks for forgiveness, and works to right a wrong.
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Forgiveness is a form of the highest love
