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When Jesus Christ forgives you of sin, He never brings it back up.

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him. He settled for everything, and then He cried, 'It is finished.' And on the basis of that finished work, God can freely forgive, and justify completely, every poor sinner who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ.

When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. We’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves.

When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.

When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.

When we want to move beyond the pain, when we want to feel better, when we are ready to move beyond where we are, emotionally and spiritually, we must forgive.

When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.

When you are depressed, bear in mind the Lord's command to Peter to forgive a sinner seventy times seven (cf. Mt. 18:22). And you may be sure that He Who gave this command to another will Himself do very much more.

When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.

When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

When you don't forgive you permit your enemies to live rent free in your head -evict them today.

When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.

When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.

When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

Who understands much, forgives much.

Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding.

Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, ‘You’re disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.’ But women, we’re supposed to be like, ‘He messed up. He made a mistake.’

Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

Women are raised to be the nurturers and steadiers of rocked boats, to hold relationships in place as if our lives depended on it. But it shores up your own dignity and integrity if you're able to say, "There are a million things I love about you, and I want our relationship to continue. I forgive you 95 percent, but not this 5 percent.

Women can't forgive failure.

Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.

Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.

Wouldn't it be great if we could be a little less judgmental and a little more forgiving of each other's humanness? We're only here a short time. Let's pay more attention to the good and not the bad in one another.

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

Words don't come easily, like forgive me.

Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.

You cannot forget the past but you can forgive it.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies, the pond sucking out the throb.

You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!

You can't forgive your sin. Only God can.

You didn't have to come after me." "Yes, I did," he said. "You're far too inexperienced to protect yourself in a hostile situation without me." "That's sweet. Maybe I'll forgive you." "Forgive me? Fro what?" "Fro telling me to shut up." His eyes narrowed. "I did not... Well, I did, But you were-" "Never mind.

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

You get work however you get work. People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is freelance, because their work is good, and because they are easy to get along with, and because they deliver the work on time. And you don't even need all three. Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. They'll forgive the lateness of the work if it's good, and if they like you. And you don't have to be as good as the others if you're on time and it's always a pleasure to hear from you.