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" The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened. "

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" It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. "

" One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness. "

" The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture. "

" We cannot go alone to God. We belong to His Mystical Body, the Church; by even our most secret sins, if they be grievous, we have injured the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ and must ask forgiveness of His Mystical Body, too. "

" Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. "

" 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. "

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

Mackenzie Phillips

" If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption. "

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

Mary Boykin Chesnut

" You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. "

Lewis B. Smedes

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

" The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements. "

Bryant H. McGill

" We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness. "

" Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in. "

" I believe in forgiveness; I believe in trying to work with people. "

" The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness. "

" Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. "

" Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours. "

" I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too. "

" When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. "

" Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. "

" When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. "

" To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. "

" On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt. "

Laura Schlessinger

" I believe in forgiveness. "

" How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all. "

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

" As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses. "

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

Frederick William Robertson