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It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses. Ignatius If I cast up a confessed, repented, and forsaken sin against another, and allow my remembrance of that sin to colour my thinking and feed my suspicions, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness-a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim's family has forgiven him. And there can be forgiveness without pardon.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

It is said that the offender never forgives. Certainly it is quite explicitly hard for the one in the wrong to do so. And it takes more spiritual asset than continued alcohol often leaves.

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

It may be easier to get forgiveness than permission, but trust is harder to get back than both.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.

Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain. Or they forgive fast in order to get an advantage over the people they forgive. And their instant forgiving only makes things worse... People who have been wronged badly and wounded deeply should give themselves time and space before they forgive... There is a right moment to forgive. We cannot predict it in advance; we can only get ourselves ready for it when it arrives... Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

Let the punishment match the offense.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people that did you wrong the day before. Forgive your spouse for what they said. At the start of the day, let go of the disappointments, the set backs from yesterday. Start every morning fresh and new. God did not create you to carry around all that baggage. Let it go and move forward in the life of blessing He has in store for you!

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.