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" The films of which I'm most proud I've written are the ones that pivot on forgiveness. "

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" If you don't believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus' sacrifice was not enough. "

" You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it. "

" A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. "

Sydney J. Harris

" Truth is an illusory notion. "

" The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on. "

" The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness. "

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" Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. "

" I love discussing social issues, but I'm not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love. "

" Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness. "

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" Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. "

" As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I've approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion. "

" You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth. "

" We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. "

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" The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. "

Marianne Williamson

" Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. "

" The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven. "

Robert Downey, Jr.

" There's nothing wrong with anybody from any other country having a perspective on the British royal family. It would be interesting. But I just doubt that they would get the dialogue right. "

" It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. "

" My husband was a serial adulterer, and there was nothing I could do about it: no questions I could ask him, no argument I could have with him, no explanation he could give me or pleas he could make for forgiveness. "

" For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, 'Were you all really in the same room?' "

" Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. "

" I think when you're happy, emotions are right near the top - mine definitely are. I cry easily, I laugh easily, I lose my temper easily... and I beg for forgiveness easily. "

" People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust. "

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

" I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important. "

" I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. "

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" Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. "

" As our nation's student debt crisis has reached a breaking point, we've been hearing lots of talk about student loan forgiveness. It's taken me 20 years to forgive myself for my loan - and just as long to pay it off. "

" If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. "