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

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

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

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

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

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 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 key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

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 offender never pardons.

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

The noblest revenge is to forgive

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

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

The only way to peace is forgiveness.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

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

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 some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

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

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

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.