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“Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of the great "in spite of" that says: I forget although I remember. Without this kind of forgetting no human relationship can endure healthily. I don't refer to a solemn act of asking for and offering forgiveness. Such rituals as sometimes occur between parents and children, or friends, or man and wife, are often acts of moral arrogance on the one part and enforced humiliation on the other. But I speak of the lasting willingness to accept him who has hurt us.”

“Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.”

Needs Sometimes Whole Night Fine Forgiveness Witness Whole Truth What Is Forgiveness

Author:Dar Williams

“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”

Sometimes Feelings Joy Peace Compassion Ignorance Forgiveness Capacity Skins Kindness And Compassion Peace And Joy Compassion For Yourself

Author:Frederick Buechner

“Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.”

Needs Persons Sometimes Forgiveness Forgiven

Author:Jennifer McMahon

“Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.”

Sometimes Moving Acceptance Regret Forgiveness Sookie Stackhouse

Book:Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

Source: Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

“Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.”

Source: The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...

“In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life.”

Way Mean Sometimes Done Moments Character Form Given Kindness Forgiveness Forgiving Oneself Range Desperation

Book:Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

“Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.”

Looks Long Sometimes Done God Left Realizing Wonder Lord Long Time Forgiveness Forgiving Producers Long Time Ago Sometimes I Wonder Lord Forgive Me

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.”

People Sometimes Facts Seems Asks Easy Hurt Impossible Forgiveness Forgiving Embarrassed Wronged Forgiving Others

Book:Faith Commander: Living Five Values from the Parables of Jesus

Source: Faith Commander: Living Five Values from the Parables of Jesus

“Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged deep. And we must expect some lapses...some people seem to manage to finish off forgiving in one swoop of the heart. But when they do, you can bet they are forgiving flesh wounds. Deeper cuts take more time and can use a second coat.”

People Heart Long Doe Sometimes Use Seems Happens Time Process Cutting Forgiveness Forgiving Deeper Flesh Wounds Manage More Time Coats Theologian Lapses

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“Sometimes we can take offense so easily. On other occasions we are too stubborn to accept a sincere apology. Who will subordinate ego, pride, and hurt-then step forward with 'I am truly sorry! Let's be as we once were: friends. Let's not pass to future generations the grievances, the anger of our time'? Let's remove any hidden wedges that can do nothing but destroy.”