Forgiving Quotes
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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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Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.
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Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.
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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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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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A story that must be told never forgives silence.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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Nothing stirs God’s heart more than a humble heart and a merciful spirit. God responds to mercy, because it is through compassion that we fully come to know Him. This is the defining quality of a true follower of Christ. We are never closer to the heart of God than when we are forgiving someone. And we are never farther from it than when we are holding a grudge.
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The longevity of every relationship is decided by the willingness to forgive
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To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.
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I don't know if there's any secret recipe. Just a lot of hard work. Pay attention to your constituents. I always had a great Iowa staff that did all my great constituent service work. And I found that people would forgive me for a lot of my "liberal sins" because I paid attention to the home front.
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It is hard to witness to truth to people who believe truth is relative. It is hard to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to people who believe that, since morality is relative, they have no sins to forgive.
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Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.
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Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.
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Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.
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I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.
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Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.
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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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You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.
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It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world is yours and you're the answer to the Wright brothers' prayers. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong ... all my trespasses are forgiven. Best you not believe it.
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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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If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.
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Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.
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Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.
