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" Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness. "

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" The Eucharist is an opportunity of grace and conversion. It's also a time of forgiveness of sins, so my hope would be that grace would be instrumental in bringing people to the truth. "

Blase J. Cupich

" No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say what you won't ever do. And you can't say that you won't have forgiveness in your heart if there were to be an issue like that. "

" I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself. "

" No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure. "

" Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts. "

Mary Boykin Chesnut

" The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. "

Harriet Beecher Stowe

" I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to. "

" I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption. "

Aleksandar Hemon

" Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness. "

Henry B. Eyring

" Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. "

" I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive. "

" I've been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ. "

" Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.' "

" Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. "

Saint Augustine

" Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is. "

" The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. "

" It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism. "

" When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out. "

" Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. "

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

Catherine the Great

" To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing. "

" There is no forgiveness in nature. "

" And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad. "

" The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.' "

" We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness. "

Frederick William Robertson

" The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. "

Simon Wiesenthal

" Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that. "

" When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ. "

" Forgotten is forgiven. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald