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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.

The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

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.'

The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. spiritual Dimensions of Psychology.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.

The sign of sincere love is to forgive wrongs done to us. It was with such love that the Lord loved the world.

The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive.

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

The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.

the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

The weak can never forgive.

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 whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly.

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

They who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time, may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

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

To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

To be social is to be forgiving.

To err is human, to forgive supine.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.

To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.

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

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.