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She is here, near my heart again!' he cried. 'Oh Lord, I thank Thee for all, for all, for Thy wrath and for Thy mercy! . . .And for Thy sun which is shining upon us again after the storm! For all this minute I thank Thee! Oh, we may be insulted and humiliated, but we're together again, and now the proud and haughty who have insulted and humiliated us may triumph! Let them throw stones at us! Have no fear, Natasha.... We will go hand in hand and I will say to them, 'This is my darling, this is my beloved daughter, my innocent daughter whom you have insulted and humiliated, but whom I love and bless for ever and ever!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
God unconditionally loves us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Jesus Christ saves the lost sheep.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Who do you need to forgive? Letting go of what you have been holding onto will bring energy to everything good you want to bring into your life.
— Eileen Anglin
[Margaret] went to a talk on parenting at the end of the school year where the speaker had said that doing good things, charitable things, was actually a selfish act, because it made you feel good. She has been mulling that ever since. Should she do something selfless, something good? Should she reach out to someone who really needs her forgiveness? Would this make her feel better?
— Janice Y.K. Lee, The Expatriates
As hard as I fought to hold on to my anger, to continue to hate my dad, the tugging of the good memories eventually found an inroad to my heart. No one is all good or all bad. The reality that my father would forever be a part of me was inescapable. A big part of making peace with myself was rediscovering the good in him and claiming that as my inheritance. The act of forgiving wasn’t like flipping a switch—forgiven . . . unforgiven . . . forgiven . . . unforgiven . . . forgiven.
— Mahtob Mahmoody, My Name Is Mahtob: The Story that Began the Global Phenomenon Not Without My Daughter Continues
God forgives not with a decree but with a caress. Jesus too goes beyond the law and forgives by caressing the wounds of our sins.
— Pope Francis, The Name of God is Mercy
Past experiences are doubtful food for Christians
—  a present coming to Christ alone can give us joy and comfort.
How can I seek forgiveness for sins I haven't committed yet?
— Nilesh Rathod, Destiny of Shattered Dreams
I no longer look to my abusers with any expectation– of remorse, or apology or restitution or restoration or relationship. I’m at peace, accepting that they won’t and can’t help me out of the mess they created. But, I’m the best qualified for that job anyway and I’m happy with the job I’m doing.
— Christina Enevoldsen, The Rescued Soul: The Writing Journey for the Healing of Incest and Family Betrayal
The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering
—  the first step to forgiveness is realising that we're all human and we all share the same capacity for fallibility and foible
We are all going to die soon. Do you really wish to waste time being angry at me?""Yes. I remain an unrepentant optimist. If i see that I am about to die, or you, I will forgive you. But not until then, you bastard.
— Sherry Thomas, The Immortal Heights
God, grant me the serenity to stop beating myself up for not doing things perfectly, the courage to forgive myself because I’m working on doing things better, and the wisdom to know that You already love me just the way I am.
— Eleanor Brownn
You can forget what people said and did, but you can never forget how they made you feel. You can forgive the people who hurt you, but you will remember what the taught you.
— J. C. Read
The only loss is the love did not express.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you have a fault it is you do not forgive easy!
— Stephen Richards
...I feel pity that she will never fully understand what it is to be loved and forgiven, then loved even more.” Pastel Orphans
— Gemma Liviero, Pastel Orphans
I am strong enough to forgive.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Until you can leave the matter of forgiveness to God, you will not have acquired true humility.
— Colleen McCullough
Allowing yourself to forgive will fuel your goals and life vision with new energy.
— Eileen Anglin
Let’s remind ourselves that to be compassionate and forgiving doesn’t mean we are endorsing dysfunctional behaviour. On the contrary, it’s essential the harm that was inflicted upon us is properly validated and grieved. Forgiveness isn’t an intellectual concept or an airy-fairy idea. It’s a painstaking process. To be compassionate and to forgive mean we are gradually letting go of poisonous, toxic feelings that are trapped in our minds and bodies.
— Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Even when I knew people were cheating me, what was important was how I behaved, because I have to answer to God. I can't be responsible for other people's actions: They will have to answer to God themselves
— Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what's in a person's heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things.
— Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
You cannot love if you cannot forgive.
— Kemi Sogunle
This was the bad version. This version was what later events told her had happened. It was as real as the other. They played simultaneously in a loop, yet Mathilde could never quite believe it. That twitch of a leg, a later insertion, surely. She could not believe, and yet something in her did believe, and this contradiction that she held within her became the source of everything. All that remained were the facts. Before it all happened she had been so beloved, afterward, love had been withdrawn. And she had pushed or she hadn't, the result had been all the same. There had been no forgiveness for her, but she had been so very young. How could parents do this? How could she not have been forgiven?
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
Forgive and set your self free. When we forgive, we heal our own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for our heart.
— Angie karan
Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness.  In aikido and other martial arts, we sidestep our attacker's force rather than resisting it.  The energy of the attack then boomerangs back in the direction of the attacker. forgiveness works in the same way.  When we attack back, and defense is a form of attack, we initiate a war which no one can win.
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Whether we're forgiving our parents or someone else or ourselves, the laws of mind remain the same.  As we love, we shall be released from pain and as we deny love, we shall remain in pain.  Each of us have different fears and different manifestations of fear,  but all of us are saved by the same technique:  The call to God to save our lives by salvaging our minds.  'Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.  For love is the kingdom and love is the glory and love is the power, forever and forever.
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
The only way to stop hurting other people is to stop hurting yourself.
— Menna van Praag, Men, Money and Chocolate: What more could there be to life?
Higher states of consciousness correlate strongly with attributes like compassion, forgiveness, generosity and kindness. The more one is self-aware and other-aware, and the greater one's connection with the spiritual, the more likely one will be a force for good in our world.
— Philip Chard
I have to go.''Just be careful about your expectations..''I want her to apologize.''Sweetheart,' Jean said, 'your mother is never going to apologize... Go see her if you need to. But remember who she is. Going to your mother for understanding is like going to the hardware store for bread.
— Katherine Center, The Lost Husband
Have compassion and forgive the mistakes of others. If you cannot forgive ignore but never hate them, because hatred will always lead to destruction.
— Alok Jagawat
Forgiveness, both its extension and receipt, requires a lower, humble position before both God and man. Forgiveness, both its extension and receipt, is not the natural inclination of man, and I must fight for it.
— Seth Haines, Coming Clean:  A Story of Faith
There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding...If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is a posture of grace.
— Marilynne Robinson, Home
Forward is forward.
— Courtney Maum, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You
When you quieten and silence your mind and lovingly consult your heart, that direct line between your heart and mind directs you to the "God" within you. It is in that place you will find your answers and what you are looking for. If you are hurt by others, mistrust and hate them, you can not heal. You are only punishing your own soul. FORGIVENESS is the key here. Forgive and let GO. It is a gift you give to your self in order to heal your wounds. Life goes on no matter what! It's either LOVE or HATE. Which would you choose?
— Angie karan
When we come face-to-face with the tender, forgiving eye of our Redeemer, only then will we gain the power to forgive ourselves - and those who have used us. In light of the forgiveness Christ has offered us, how can we offer less to those who have hurt us?
— Leslie Ludy, When God Writes Your Life Story: Experience the Ultimate Adventure
Without forgiveness, there is no healing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many ways, such as faultfinding, gossiping, backbiting, and murmuring, living beyond our means, envying, coveting, withholding gratitude and praise that might lift another, and being unforgiving and jealous.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Forgiveness is a form of LOVE. The ability to forgive is not achieved with soaring thoughts or intentions alone. It comes about by engaging several tools over a matter of weeks that release your body, mind, and soul, from the trapped wounding energy that has caused you to feel so much pain and then be able to replace it with new healing energy instead.
— Angie karan
I've done so many bad things in my life but the stars always forgave me.
— Susan  Fletcher, A Little in Love
This is where happiness sneaks up on you, and you forgive evil people for unforgivable things because they give you a taste of a future you always thought was beyond your reach.
— Laura Thalassa, The Queen of Traitors
Compassion does not have to be a face-to-face relationship. Forgiveness does not imply friendship. Understanding why someone has inflicted pain on us is how we set ourselves free of the past, not how we excuse someone's behaviour so they can continue to abuse us.
— Vironika Tugaleva
A peaceful heart forgives, and forgiveness will transform our lives and our planet.
— Eileen Anglin
Great mercy, great love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Act with God's compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong.
— Shannon L. Alder
It is human to sin but divine to be saved.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When I found God forgiveness found me.
— Ron Baratono
Fear grid-irons your broken, suffering heart with strength, encasing it with a protective, tough shell. One that soon becomes a prison that will emaciate the unused, enclosed heart inside if left to its own accord. But renewed hope gently unwraps the hard cast, and replaces it with a more resilient, pliable layer, protective, strong, but permeable so as to let love soak in and nurture the malnourished, dying heart inside.
— Connie Kerbs, Paths of Fear: An Anthology of Overcoming Through Courage, Inspiration, and the Miracle of Love
Try and make it right, and if you can't, that's on them, not you. Forgiveness shouldn't be stockpiled by anyone. It should be given freely.
— Karina Halle, The Lie
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. The folly of rehashing long-past hurts does not bring happiness.
— James E. Faust
Some hold grudges for a lifetime, unaware that courageously forgiving those who have wronged us is wholesome and therapeutic.
— James E. Faust
Forgiveness comes more readily when, we have faith in God and trust in His word. Such faith “enables people to withstand the worst of humanity. It also enables people to look beyond themselves. More importantly, it enables them to forgive.
— James E. Faust
When tragedy strikes, we should not respond by seeking personal revenge but rather let justice take its course and then let go. It is not easy to let go and empty our hearts of festering resentment. The Savior has offered to all of us a precious peace through His Atonement, but this can come only as we are willing to cast out negative feelings of anger, spite, or revenge. For all of us who forgive “those who trespass against us,” even those who have committed serious crimes, the Atonement brings a measure of peace and comfort.
— James E. Faust
Let us remember that we need to forgive to be forgiven.
— James E. Faust
Dipping into the pitcher of the past, his father often said, can only sour the cup of the present.
— Gerald N. Lund
Though he wouldn’t take it or offer it back, she gave. She squeezed it into him and held it there. She accepted him. She loved him in his wretchedness, kissed his ragged cheek, and called him /father./
— A.S. Peterson, Fiddler's Green
The gift of salvation set me free from all my sins.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Forgiveness heals all wounds and make you healthy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Son of God, Jesus Christ, ransom His life to save us all.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not allow hate to consume you. Live a life of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Forgiveness takes away the burdens of past.
— Debasish Mridha
In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.
— Raymond E. Feist
Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration of health.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration health.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Yes. I really love you, Becky, and when you love someone that much, the pain and the pleasure is that much more intense. But forgiveness is a given.
— Linda Warren, Texas Bluff
Can you forgive her? Can you do that?There was no response.Because if you can start to forgive, then it will become easier.And?And then you will be able to forgive yourself—and ask others to forgive you.
— Alexander McCall Smith, At the Reunion Buffet
To forgive others, you must forgive yourself first.
— Debasish Mridha
So forgive and forget the past baggage of life to refresh your life.
— Debasish Mridha
Do not allow your sad past to rule your present situation. Unlike a tango, it does not take to two to forgive.
— Stephen Richards, The Pain You Feel Today Is The Strength You Feel Tomorrow
If you can’t love yourself, how can you love others? If you can’t forgive yourself, how can you forgive others?
— Debasish Mridha
If you love someone, you will forgive him or her all the wrongs. You can make it right and love again.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Forgiveness is freedom. Forgiveness is liberation. Forgiveness is a choice. If you forgive and forget you are free but, if you keep it, you shall always have it and it shall always rule and direct your heart, mind, body and spirit.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It became clear to him that all the dreadful evil he had been witnessing in prisons and jails and the quiet self-satisfaction of the perpetrators of this evil were the consequences of men trying to do what was impossible; trying to correct evil while being evil themselves...Now he saw clearly what all the terrors he had seen came from, and what ought to be done to put a stop to them. The answer he could not find was the same that Christ gave to Peter. It was that we should forgive always an infinite number of times because there are no men who have not sinned themselves, and therefore none can punish or correct others.
— Leo Tolstoy
He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.
— H.W. Brands
We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Christ can take the most sin-laden, selfish, evil person and bring forgiveness and new life.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Before asking God’s forgiveness there is something important you must do. You must repent, that is, turn from the behavior and lifestyle that [leads to sin].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When God forgives, there is an immediate andcomplete change in relationship. Instead of hostility, there is love and acceptance. Instead of enmity, there is friendship.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Repent when you fail, and immediately seek God’s forgiveness and restoration. Sin breaks our fellowship with God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Guilt is not all bad. Without it there is nothing to drive a person toward self-examination and toward God for forgiveness.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The only way we can change an enemy to a friend is by forgiveness.
— Debasish Mridha
Speak with silence, listen with heart, and forgive with kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
The thing to hold on to in forgiving is that most often the people who are hurting us do not know what they are doing. In fact it is fair to say that none of us knows the impact of our actions in relationships, at least for a lot of the time. We are all unaware of our power to hurt and to heal.
— Carla L. Rueckert, Living the Law of One 101: The Choice
Forgiveness is a comfort, but it doesn't bring back what you lost
— Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go
When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven.
— Debasish Mridha
If you cannot forgive others, how can you forgive yourself?
— Debasish Mridha
Three great actions: To do what is right, To love mercy, and To walk humbly with Yahweh.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
When you encounter another person…it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation? If you confront insult or antagonism, your first impulse will be to respond in kind. But if you think, as it were, This is an emissary sent from the Lord, and some benefit is intended for me, first of all the occasion to demonstrate my faithfulness, the chance to show that I do in some small degree participate in the grace that saved me, you are free to act otherwise than as circumstances would seem to dictate. You are free to act by your own lights. You are freed at the same time of the impulse to hate or resent that person. He would probably laugh at the thought that the Lord sent him to you for your benefit (and his), but that is the perfection of the disguise, his own ignorance of it…I am reminded of this precious instruction by my own great failure to live up to it recently…
— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
There are new mercies every morning.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
...according to God's Word, we should not give a singe drop of evangelical consolation to those who are still living in sin. ON THE OTHER HAND, we should not address the slightest threat or rebuke to the broken hearted--but only promises delivering consolation and grace, forgiveness of sin and righteousness. Life and salvation.
— C.F.W. Walther, Law & Gospel: How to Read and Apply the Bible: A Reader's Edition
God’s forgiveness is not just a casual statement; it is the complete blotting out of all dirt and degradation of our past, present, and future.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.
— Philip Pullman, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
A book about books is like a poem about poetry:Books are knowledge, paid for, all.Readers - horses in a stall.Stallions should always run.Lest they stale become, in turn.Running waters are most clear.In some books, you disappear –lose yourself, and track of time.How I wish that one was mine...Mine, to have, to write, to read...Mine, just like a flying steed.Mine, forever, - to improve.Would I then, of me, approve?I would not, I can't... myself.I'm but dust, swept off a shelf.Fly, can I, just 'til I'm settled,down, beside my flower, petalled.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
It may not be an easy thing to live in sweet fellowship with all those with whom we come in contact
—  but that is what the grace of God is given to us for.
The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
You have to forgive yourself for your past mistakes, and you have to forgive those that hurt you for what they did to you, or you're never going to fully move on.
— Jennifer Gracen, More Than You Know
The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith—and He will forgive.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When we take too long to forgive the people we love, we can sometimes be too damn late for it to matter.
— Monika Basile, The Queen of Broken Things
God offered the greatest and most wonderful gift freely, while we were still sinners. It is a gift for any and every one, no matter how broken, how far, or how dark. He didn’t require us to change before we came, but offered a way out while we were at our worst.
— Sarah Holman, Distorted Glass: A Snow Queen Story
He who possesses forgiveness is able to enjoy true happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
I was mortified that I could spend a lifetime with someone and not know them at all—that I could love someone so blindly and never question who they really were. Was it stupidity? Or is that merely what love actually is—to see the good, to love the good and wonderful and ignore the rest? I think that is what I used to believe…I don’t believe that anymore.Love is seeing every damn rotten thing about someone and loving them anyway. It’s not being too afraid to look deep inside another person and still being able to see all the good messed up in with the bad. Love is accepting the shit as well as the roses. I think I failed to ever smell the bullshit. I only smelled the roses and never realized that it is the shit that makes the roses bloom.
— Monika Basile, The Queen of Broken Things
To lose--get angry and fight back. To win--forgive with love.
— Debasish Mridha
To extend compassion to a so-called villain, to forgive those who have wronged you, and to find common ground with someone who has been awfully isolated are not acts typically met with fireworks and swelling violins. More often than not, they are pushed away. To love, really love, is to do them anyway.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset
The best revenge is true forgiveness.
— Debasish Mridha
People tended to forgive only partially. They forgave in order to, one day, get a chance to remind those they’d forgiven about their failings. They forgave to feel righteous. That’s why forgiveness was so painful – because it meant conceding. It meant letting go of her case without a rebuttal. True forgiveness knew no justice. It was liberating, most probably… but freedom comes at a cost. Freedom is never free.
— Adelheid Manefeldt, Consequence
Truly, the world is in need of moral leadership . . .that teaches the difference between right and wrong and teaches us to forgive one another even as we are forgiven by our Father in heaven.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We make a mockery of God’s forgiveness when we deliberately engage in sin because we think He will forgive it later.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise.
— Jay Woodman
Write this word deeply into our consciousnesses: forgive! We are bound to develop desires, and to use our will to seek after those desires, whether they be for things worldly or hallowed, for possessions, attributes or the lack of them, and as we achieve our desires, we will find the side effects of each and every one. We will wrong others, for the most part unintentionally, but still, we will err, and others will wrong us, whether they mean to or not. We generally are simply moving too quickly, and judging people and situations too hastily.
— Carla L. Rueckert, A Wanderer's Handbook
As women, we almost never give ourselves enough credit for what we're capable of, for what we endure and how giving we are. Part of loving yourself is about forgiving yourself - which is something I've always struggled with. It's the messy parts that make us human, so we should embrace them too - pat ourselves on the back for getting through them rather than being angry for having gotten into them in the first place. Because loving yourself is ultimately about self-acceptance, about embracing every part of who you are. And that's never just one thing.
— Jennifer Lopez, True Love
Give people the chance to change.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Give people the chance to change their heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be compassionate with all people. Give them the chance to change.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be compassionate with all people.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
With weapons we can kill our enemies
—  with love and forgiveness we can win them.
A dove will never nest in a burning tree, nor will love ever reside in unforgiving heart.
— Jason Versey
A dove will never be found in a burning tree and love will never be found in a heart that won't forgive.
— Jason Versey
If someone puts you through hell, don’t be mad or bitter about it, because the thing that will free you from that hell is forgiveness.
— Jeanette Coron
When you forgive your enemy, you may no longer have one.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
By not forgiving yourself you are limiting your ability to give to others.
— Danielle Joworski
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors.
— Henry David Thoreau
Forgiveness doesn’t make wrong things right. It remembers that what is right far outshines what is wrong.
— Alan Cohen
Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Laugh it off, Life gets better.
— Touaxia Vang
You must first forgive yourself in order to forgive others.
— Debasish Mridha
If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.
— Matt      Chandler
The cost of forgiveness is less than the price of bitterness
— Systenious Makhubele
The essence of life is the power of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When the resurrection sings itself in the robin's glad song, and bursting buds defy the death grip of winter, and you walk upon the yielding earth near my grave...remember that my soul is not there, but rather it is absent from the body and present with the Lord.
— Carl Burnam
To forgive is not for the “sole sake” of relieving another of their guilt, but rather for the “sake of the soul” that had been perpetrated upon!
— DC Gunnersen
No woman will be licensed to preach in the Louisiana Presbytery as long as I'm a member of it!
— Reverend John Clampitt
The deletion of logic is through....LoveAcceptanceForgiveness Compassion Understanding Faith in the unknownPresent Moment Living Conscious Breathing
— Matthew Donnelly
You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!
— Stephen Richards
If I left any good or planted any flowers among thorns, the credit goes to God and my many substantial friends.
— Reverend Ada Caston Slaton Bonds
I hope my forgiveness reminds you,Of the part you forgot to break in me.
— Jenim Dibie
Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don’t think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.
— Steve Goodier
Universe, tell me about the time when the world was kind, when words didn't shatter the souland leave people bleeding into the crease of their smile. tell me about the time when people wouldn't hide behind sarcasm or humor to mask themselves from dying slowly on the inside. Universe, tell me the names of all the stars in your sky, because I may have met one the other night.His presence in my thoughts, his touch in my heart and no longer a dream but laying next to me now. There are marks on my body from the energy of our light.He is broken, like me, a fallen star. Yet, aspires to soar and believes he can fly. I too believe in dreams.Universe, do you think you can do somethingabout all the lonely souls? the broken? the fallen stars?There are so many of us.And what about the hurt? the pain? the restlessness?Oris this all part of something bigger, a lesson to be learnt? so we can become a part of you?Universe, it’s me, Please hear my soul speak, my heart beat,I've learnt my lesson.Forgive me.Offer me redemption or bring me back to you.Universe, are you there?
— Rina Nath
Remembering to live by forgetting all the places where I died.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
Life is never easy for any one. Be gentle with one another.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I was thinking about changing into a different sort of person than the one I am. I do think about that. I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same. What has Cam ever done that actually hurt me, anyway, as Haro once said. And how am I better than he is after the way i felt the night Mother lived instead of died? I made a promise to myself i would try.I went over there one day taking them a bakery cake - which Cam eats now as happily as anyone else - and I heard their voices out in the yard - now it’s summer, they love to sit in the sun - Mother saying to some visitor, “Oh, yes I was, I was all set to take off into the wild blue yonder, and Cam here, this idiot, came and danced outside my door with a bunch of his hippie friends - ‘	‘My God, woman,’ roared Cam, but you could tell he didn’t care now, ‘members of an ancient holy discipline.”	I had a strange feeling, like I was walking n coals and trying a spell so I wouldn’t get burnt.	Forgiveness in families is a mystery to me, how it comes or how it lasts
— Alice Munro, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories
Sometimes all you need is to forgive yourself.
— Unarine Ramaru
A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness begins on ours.
— L.G. Abell, A Mother's Book of Traditional Househould Skills
Forgiveness was a mere noun; a fleeting concept of little importance in the grand scheme of written and spoken language, and was thereby spilt freely like cheap, overabundant wine without consequence. Yet forgive was a verb and in turn held far more potency; an action that must be genuine and consciously performed without reservation in order to fully embody the idea behind it. It was both a plea and an affirmation that could only be acknowledged as obtainable through the mutual contract of expression and acceptance between two parties of equal understanding. Enacting forgiveness was and always would be more difficult than simply declaring that the concept itself existed, and the irreversible condition of the human heart would forever ensure that such disparity would remain fact.
— Mallory Perkins, Cathexis
May we greet each other with a smile, hug and speak kind words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else, there is the Art of Acceptance.
— Rebecca O’Dwyer
You should never forget. But you should try to forgive.
— Michelle Madow, Diamonds are Forever
We fall away, but God redeem us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Do you want to look back and wish you’d handled this differently? Most of us go through life feeling invincible, but none of us know what day will be our last. Is holding on to your anger truly worth it?
— Michelle Madow, Diamonds are Forever
Fight fire with fire, only adds more negative energy to the situation, making it worse.
— Auliq Ice
My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.
— Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world.
— Auliq Ice
It takes strength to forgive and love unconditionally.
— Michelle Madow, Diamonds are Forever
Keep your quiet spirit, peace and calmness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It’s taken years, but part of my own personal growth has involved deciding that I can learn something from even the most annoying person.
— Auliq Ice
It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.
— Auliq Ice
We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!
— Auliq Ice
When you have truly come to know a person, Nella -- when you see beneath the sweet gestures, the smiles -- when you see the rage and the pitiful fear which each of us hide -- then forgiveness is everything.
— Jessie Burton
The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else there is the Art of Acceptance.
— Rebecca O'Dwyer - Centred Woman
Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!
— Auliq Ice, The Law of the Universe
You fall flat on your face, and it's not the first time you've done it, Never let your past press you down.
— Auliq Ice
The practice of radical forgiveness, the extension of compassion-this is grace.
— Jiulio Consiglio
If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
— Abraham Lincoln
Something was stirring in him, though; a bud of comprehension that could very well bloom into forgiveness if left unchecked.
— Julie Anne Long
Yesterday is done. Today has just begun. I am not going let anyone's negative issues do anything to me other than inspire me to do better.
— Gillian Duce
When you say the word 'sorry' make sure you understand that an apology has 3 parts. "I'm sorry", "It's my fault and I won't do it again" and "How can I make things better". The last part is the most important.
— Manasa Rao
Forgive? It's not easy, Millicent. But I must forgive. Even if he never say he sorry. I do my part. Leave Boone's part to God. That not for me to control. So, not for me to worry about.
— Julie Cantrell, When Mountains Move
To ask to be forgiven is in part to acknowledge that the attitude displayed in our actions was such as might properly be resented and in part to repudiate that attitude for the future
—  and to forgive is to accept the repudiation and to forswear the resentment.
There is grace for every soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never judge the life of another man. You never know his struggles.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never judge the life of another man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We ought to give each other, a chance to change.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Standing there shuffling the memories on the counter, I remember what I sometimes forget. Forgiveness. Compassion. Gratitude. Three roads leading to being here now, where we can give the next moment a chance to exist without prejudice, so we can love what’s here, while it’s still here: each other, ourselves, our freedom." - excerpt from FOR THE SENDER: Love Letters from Vietnam
— Alex Woodard, For The Sender: Love Letters From Vietnam
Sometimes it's too heavy to give a second chance.
— Manasa Rao
I mean have you ever met anybody who loves to do bad ? who just knows that that choice is a bad one and yet wants to do it ? i don't think so. not even an animal would. Everybody is convince that that choice is the right one. they can bet their lives on it.God help us be patience with people and pray for them instead of nag at them.
— Mary Tornyenyor
The bond of love is sacred spirituality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you’re offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger.
— Auliq Ice
It is better to show ‘you care’ than say ‘I care’.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
When you forgive, you do not change the past, but you change your future".
— Camilla Dorand, Back to Me: Changing How I Feel About My Mother, My Body, and Men
The movie, (X-Men: Days of Future Past), illustrates a spiritual journey that involves going back in time. The Purpose of the journey is to find the core grievance and let it be healed. When the grievance is healed in Forgiveness, all future scenarios of conflict and destruction are also healed. It is not that they have been prevented in time; it is that we have come to the realization that there was no time in which they could have existed. In the Happy Dream, everything is resolved. It becomes harmonious and then disappears.Wolverine is the agent strong enough to go back through time and ignite the mission of forgiveness. We can think of ourselves this way as well. We can imagine that our future self, or our higher Self, is orchestrating this whole thing for our awakening. We are just perceiving it in time, where we perceive ourselves to be. There is great love and compassion coming from the higher Self, the future self.
— David Hoffmeister, Quantum Forgiveness: Physics, Meet Jesus
Don’t lose that anger. Just have a little more patience and forgiveness. For yourself as well.
— Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me
Would you have me forever carry hate for one who is dead?
— Benita J. Prins
You're looking at the face of a black man who hates nobody.
— Martin Luther King Sr.
We all suffer ills at the hands of others; however, reactions to these injustices differ like night and day. Many seek to punish the world for their suffering, while some work hard to save the world from experiencing similar grief.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
We ought to love one another
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
For me it's NOT to, It's "For"give; As Given it's NOT you "For"given
— Syed Sharukh
The movie Mr. Nobody examines the core belief that we can find happiness if we make the right choices in life. We can’t; it’s impossible. But the belief that we have real choices that can bring us what we want is cherished by the ego because it keeps us locked into a never-ending quest of looking for happiness where it can’t be found. Mr. Nobody demonstrates that all the choices of this world are made because we have forgotten God and therefore believe in an illusory world of duality. None of our choices are real because they are a choice between the images of this made-up world; that is, a choice between illusions. They are nothing more than hypotheticals, which serve as meaningless distractions.
— David Hoffmeister, Quantum Forgiveness: Physics, Meet Jesus
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
— Albert Camus
If it helps you. I forgive you. But i have learned in recent weekd that seeking forgiveness from others is meaningless unless you can forgive yourself.
— Maya Banks, Colters' Lady
In this book, I have selected seven quantum movies that carry direct healing messages. These movies are powerful because they clearly depict the truth of Jesus’ spiritual teachings from A Course in Miracles; they contain the same deep wisdom, light, and love that Jesus demonstrated. Quantum movies propel us into a direct experience that is aligned with the world-changing perspective of quantum physics. The profound lessons from these movies are directly relevant to the core concerns of life; they are helping us to see all of the ego’s myriad tricks—the belief in history, ambitions, goals, outcomes, and so forth. The Holy Spirit is now using Hollywood to reach the sleeping mind! Holy Spirit has infiltrated Hollywood!This book is our prayer to Spirit: Make everything new! Show us the world anew—fresh, clean, and clear! Then we have nothing to worry about. When we trust, listen to, and follow Spirit, it is game over for the ego. Game over for worry, sadness, and anxiety. As Jesus says in the Course, “Trust would settle every problem now!” Happiness is Who We Are Now!
— David Hoffmeister, Quantum Forgiveness: Physics, Meet Jesus
We are only human when we are part of a community. ... I tried to isolate you, but it could not be done. I surrounded you with hostility; you took most of your enemies and rivals and made friends of them. ... You were a part of them; they carried you inside them all their lives.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile
Do not forgive. Forgiveness accuses before it forgives. By accusing, by stating the injury, it makes the wrong irredeemable. It carries the blow all the way to culpability. Thus, all becomes irrepairable; giving and forgiving cease to be possible. For nothing saves innocence. Forgive me for forgiving you. The sole fault would be one of position: the one and only fault is to be "I,", for it is not identity that the Self in myself brings me. This self is merely a formal necessity: it simply serves to allow the infinite relation of Self to Other. Whence the temptation (the sole temptation) to become a subject again, instead of being exposed to subjectivity without any subject, the nudity of dying space.I cannot forgive -- forgiveness comes from others -- but I cannot be forgiven either, if forgiveness is what calls the "I" into question and demands that I give myself, that I subject myself to the lack of subjectivity. And if forgiveness comes from others, it only comes; there is never any certitude that it can arrive, because in it there is nothing of the (sacramental) power to determine. It can only delay in the element of indecision. In The Trail, one might think that the death scene constitutes the pardon, the end of the interminable; but there is no end, since Kafka specifies that shame survives, which is to say, the infinite itself, a mockery of life as life's beyond.
— Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster
You forgive them and move on.
— Auliq Ice
❤ doesn't wait to be told there's a need, it sees. ❤ never justifies a wrong, it repents. ❤ cannot retire, it has much to much work to do.
— Pazaria Smith
I am sure of God's hand and guidance... You must never doubt that I am thankful and glad to go the way which I am being led. My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am very excited about Quantum Forgiveness. The pioneers of quantum physics overturned and transcended Newtonian physics and the scientific method. Quantum physicists worked down to the smallest units and realized that everything they thought they knew about the world was not true. The world is about potentiality. In superposition, for example, things appear where we believe they will appear. And that is exciting because it is a science discovery that does not have to stay in the lab. It actually has everything to do with who we are. It is the gateway to our experience of being one with Source!
— David Hoffmeister
Many forgiven me for my missteps. I know, I'm BIG mouthed. Thank you for giving me a second chance. Because of you, I also forgive others...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
I may not like everyone but love all. No one is worthy of occupying my heart. You scored a point, so what? Congratulations. You're forgiven!
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.
— Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
He told himself he would pretend nothing was wrong, but he couldn’t fool himself. He could forgive himself for having done something wrong, even something so immoral, so reckless. Harder to live with would be what would come next: living with the knowledge of what he’d done, but not letting on.
— Erin O'Riordan, Cut
Why the hell don't people understand there are some things you don't talk about? You keep it to yourself so you hurt fewer people. You're supposed to pay with guilt. Guilt is penance.
— Erika Swyler, The Book of Speculation
Sometimes, an apology sets free a part of you that you didn't even realize was caged...and forgiveness destroys the cage.
— Sanjo Jendayi
True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.
— Oprah Winfrey
We can hide a lot of stuff until God shows up, for when God shows up nothing is hidden, which includes both our embarrassment and His forgiveness.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
You cannot change a man . . . you can only change yourself.
— Michelle Muriel, Essie's Roses
I am so sorry. That we cannot go back to that moment and get you the help you needed, the information you wanted, the hope and love you craved. I am so sorry about what you’re learning now, what you’re seeing, what you’re reliving. Our culture didn’t let you mourn—we pretend you weren’t a parent, that you’re not. What’s hidden is laid bare. Know you’re loved and not judged. I’m so sorry the law let this happen. I’m so sorry we let this happen.
— Kathryn Jean Lopez
I forgave her many years ago ... It's she who blames herself, but she can't see that. It's easier to project blame into the eyes of others and defend yourself against that than to find it within yourself, where there's no possible defense.
— Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim
When you hear the haunting melody of guilt and shame, drown it out with God's song of forgiveness and love.
— Katy Kauffman, Faith, Courage, and Victory
How We Respond to Our Mistakes Has a Profound Effect on the People in Our Lives
— Holly Elissa Bruno, The Comfort of Little Things: An Educator's Guide to Second Chances
Has anyone angered or hurt you lately? Perhaps they are suffering themselves. Have you seen or partaken in unspeakable harms, and inconceivable hurts? Perhaps, forgiving oneself is essential in our life in grace. Know you are loved and cherished beyond our earthly capacity, the failures in your own life is not a reflection of your value and worth, but that grace qualifies you... makes you whole and worthy. Cherished. A hidden treasure.
— Bella Vespira
Have you ever made a decision that sounded good at the time but then led to unanticipated results?
— Holly Elissa Bruno, The Comfort of Little Things: An Educator's Guide to Second Chances