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To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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

True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

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.

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

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.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us.

We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not even have the decency to die when those we hate die-for it is a parasite sucking OUR blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it. [forgiveness]

We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.

We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.

We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.

We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation.

We forgive, if we are wise, not for the other person, but for ourselves. We forgive, not to erase a wrong, but to relieve the residue of the wrong that is alive within us. We forgive because it is less painful than holding on to resentment. We forgive because without it we condemn ourselves to repeating endlessly the very trauma or situation that hurt us so. We forgive because ultimately it is the smartest action to take on our own behalf. We forgive because it restores to us a sense of inner balance.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

We forgive but not forgotten

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven.

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.

What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you.

Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.

What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves To wash it white as snow?

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

What power has love but forgiveness?

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

When God forgives, He at once restores.

When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him. . . . When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

When the doctrine of repentance is fully understood then it is seen that repentance is all that ever needs to be taught for repentance means not only to stop doing those things which are wrong but to start doing those things which are right.