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In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said seventy times seven. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?

In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life.

I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.

I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross - with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved - injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.

I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be. Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift. I think one of the most important things is starting off the day forgiving others and forgiving yourself. You learn from your mistakes, but I don't think you have to drag them back into today.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

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. [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

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.

Let the punishment match the offense.

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

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.

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