Forgiving Quotes
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A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
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Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.
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To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.
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He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." . . . Forgive him, he has no manners." I get by on good looks," Nick said.
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Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.
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Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
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A story that must be told never forgives silence.
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It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
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One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it.
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Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.
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In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.
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My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.
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Pray you now, forget and forgive.
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In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.
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You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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In a nation that likes to see itself as forgiving, we are mulishly unforgiving of those who have committed a felony...
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Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed.
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Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on.
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I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
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The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.
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There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.
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In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.
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And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.
