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The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.

The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I know the Lord is like, 'Sherri what are you doing?' but I know I can go back and get on my knees and say, 'Lord forgive me.' I know he will never leave me nor forsake me. The wonderful thing is He answers my prayers in spite of me.

The thing that makes stories memorable is the experiences they impart onto the readership and the emotions that they make those readers feel. The audience will forgive an incredible amount if you deliver them a powerful emotional experience - and, conversely, if your story is emotionally false, no amount of pyrotechnics will save it.

The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.

The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen. As an equal. As just another person. As another first person. There's a letting go that comes with it.

The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior, it's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know how to forgive. All we need to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time -- a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.

The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.

Think about a dog’s ability to forgive. This to me is love.

They're [children] less forgiving. You have to be very conscious of the fact that they're not going to just accept things; they're going to question. They're going to move around if you bore them. They'll actually leave. So you really have to be on your toes.

Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive.

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

This Universe is made by God by one universal rule: everybody has a standard of birth, growth, and death, except man. God is extremely forgiving, but if you do not acknowledge what you have, in gratitude, you will never have more, and if you care to get it, something will be lost.

This is practically the language used to fallen women, and chiefly by their own sex: "God may forgive you, but we never can!" - a declaration which, however common, in spirit if not in substance, is, when one comes to analyse it, unparalleled in its arrogance of blasphemy. That for a single offence, however grave, a whole life should be blasted, is a doctrine repugnant even to Nature's own dealings in the visible world.

This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.

Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary stage that we are now growing out of? Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself.

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

To be social is to be forgiving.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

To err is human, but to forgive, well that's right on.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary.

To err is human, to forgive supine.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

To forgive does not mean to forget.

To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

To forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.