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“For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray - that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis we shall receive the eternal verdict.”

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Author:Mary Faustina Kowalska

“To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.”

“Forgiveness is not a moral issue. It is an energy dynamic... Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience. When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you. When you choose not to forgive, it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome sunglasses that distort everything, and it is you who are forced every day to look at life through those contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.”

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Author:Gary Zukav

“One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.”

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Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“To err is human, to forgive supine.”

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Author:S. J. Perelman

“I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.”

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Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.”

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Author:Catherine Ponder

“The cut worm forgives the plow.”

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Book:The Poetry of William Blake

Source: The Poetry of William Blake

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

“When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.”

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Author:Tyler Perry

“Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.”

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Author:Jack Kornfield

“If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.”

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Author:Robert Breault

“As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.”

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Author:Isabelle Holland

“If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?”

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Author:Dolores Huerta

“"He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix. 2). God allowed him to fall, because He meant to make him ruler over the whole world, that, remembering his own fall, he might forgive those who should slip in the future. And that what I have said is no guess, listen to Christ Himself saying: 'Simon, Simon, etc.'"”

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Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.”

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Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.”

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Author:Celia Cruz

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

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Author:J. C. Ryle

“But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your Lord shall open a door to you in your trouble: wait upon Him, as the night watch waiteth for the morning. He will not tarry. Go up to your watch-tower, and come not down, but by prayer, and faith, and hope, wait on.”

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Book:Extracts from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

Source: Extracts from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”

“During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us, and then strive to train our heart to bear and forgive these things patiently, in imitation of our Saviour. This is the way to acquire a strong spirit.”

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Author:Philip Neri

“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.”

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Author:Demi Moore

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

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Author:Saadi

“"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance on himself."”

“The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.”

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Author:Louis Dudek

“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.”

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Author:Louise Hay

“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.”

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

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Author:Lance Morrow

“Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.”

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Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.”

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Author:Franklin P. Adams

“Pray you now, forget and forgive.”

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Book:King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.”

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Author:Stephen Covey

“You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.”

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Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.”

Source: The Power of a Praying® Wife

“Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.”

“Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Let us forget and forgive injuries.”

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Book:The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell

Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell

“I never forgive, but I always forget.”

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Author:Arthur Balfour

“Good to forgive, Best to forget.”

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Author:Robert Browning

“Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.”

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Book:Dramatic works

Source: Dramatic works

“Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

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

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Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“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.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.”

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Author:Confucius

“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.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do. Let go of hose wrongs they've done to you. Get that bitterness out of your life. That's the only way you're going to truly be free. You will be amazed at what can happen in your life when you release all that poison.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

“If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store.”

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Author:Joel Osteen

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