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" To err is human; to forgive, divine. "

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" The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. "

" We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that. "

" Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that. "

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

Catherine the Great

" 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. "

" The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child. "

" Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. "

Dag Hammarskjold

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

" I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness. "

Sherri Shepherd

" Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. "

" It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. "

Francis of Assisi

" The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. "

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

Bryant H. McGill

" To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. "

" We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. "

" 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

" Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. "

" One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me. "

" If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit. "

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

Sydney J. Harris

" Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies. "

Sandra Cisneros

" Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. "

" 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. "

" Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. "

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" Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. "