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" The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. "

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" Perhaps one could say I've worked in South Africa too long, but I believe in forgiveness, especially when a person admits a mistake, asks for forgiveness, and works to right a wrong. "

" It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself. "

" One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious. "

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

" It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. "

" And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others. "

" Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. "

" To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. "

" Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. "

" 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. "

" The weak in courage is strong in cunning. "

" Forgiveness isn't just a blessing you deliver to another human being. Forgiveness is also a gift you give yourself. "

Robin S. Sharma

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

" We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins. "

" No poem in the world could do my mom justice. Despite circumstance and adversity, she had an unwavering love for her kids and a faith-based, boundless capacity for forgiveness. "

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

" Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. "

" Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons. "

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

" The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. "

" Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. "

John F. Kennedy

" Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals. "

" In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness. "

" I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night. "

" It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. "

" In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. "

" God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. "

Alfred Korzybski

" What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! "

" As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again. "

Sharon Salzberg

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

Frederick William Robertson

" Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. "