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" Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity. "

Mackenzie Phillips

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" My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time. "

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" I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives. "

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" I have sinned against You, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God's forgiveness. "

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" It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. "

" I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction. "

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" 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. "

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" Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming. "

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