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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

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

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.

Let the punishment match the offense.

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

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

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

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

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.

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

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!

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Men are less forgiving than women.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in spite of my ugly deeds

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Nobody`s Perfect

No matter what your past has been, your future is spotless.

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our spite, make adjustments, and make believe we are too good to be hateful. But the truth is that we do not dare to risk admitting the hate we feel because we do not dare to risk forgiving the person we hate.

None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!