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“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.”

Ifs Persons Action Hurt Situation Wise Alive Balance Forgiveness Forgiving Painful Trauma Resentment Behalf Holding On Erase

Author:Tian Dayton

“A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.”

Knows Men Pain Suffering Values Family Wise Forgiveness Forgiving Unnecessary Forgiven Haste Passing Away True Value Value Of Time Haste Makes Waste

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.”

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”

Compassion Moral Wise Ignorance Morality Forgiveness Ethics Bases Caring Pessimism

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”

“He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”

Giving Has Beens Different Past Wise Giving Up Forgiveness Insightful Could Have Been

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love - how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.”

“God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.”

Wise Conditions Divine Forgiveness Forgiving Repentance Arrangements Definite Atonement God Forgives

Book:Conditions of Success in Preaching Without Notes: Three Lectures Delivered Before the Students of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, Januray 13, 20, 27: 1875; with an Appendix

Source: Conditions of Success in Preaching Without Notes: Three Lectures Delivered Before the Students of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, Januray 13, 20, 27: 1875; with an Appendix

“The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly.”

Men Way Fall Justice Watches Wise Crime Youth Ignorance Ought Forgiveness Accounts Accomplish Spares Pardon Clemency

Author:Seneca the Younger

“A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.”

May Justice Wise Judging Forgiveness Mercy Let Me Temper

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.”

Source: The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”