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The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!

The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, conform over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate-filled, unforgiving world. God's forgiveness gives us a fresh start.

the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat of their pain is a response to the beat of yours, they have become truthful in their feelings...they have moved a step closer to a truthful reunion.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.

The noblest revenge is to forgive

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

The only way to peace is forgiveness.

The offender never pardons.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off by every act of vengeance always takes its unhindered course. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain...Why do family feuds go on and on?...the reason is simple: no two people, no two families, ever weigh pain on the same scale.

The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.

There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point of all goodness. It comes bringing with it, if not the freshness of innocence, yet a glow of inspiration that nerves feeble hands for hard tasks, a fire of hope that lights anew the old high ideal, so that it stands before the eye in clear relief, beckoning to make it out on its own.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus-and here is the awful cost of such freedom-a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive.'

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

There's a moment when all would go smooth and even, If only the dead could find out when To come back, and be forgiven.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.