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

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

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 manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.

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 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 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 manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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

Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

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

Let the punishment match the offense.

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.

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people that did you wrong the day before. Forgive your spouse for what they said. At the start of the day, let go of the disappointments, the set backs from yesterday. Start every morning fresh and new. God did not create you to carry around all that baggage. Let it go and move forward in the life of blessing He has in store for you!

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.