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

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" Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. "

" Forgiveness is God's command. "

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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 power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships. "

" All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. "

" A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. "

" No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say what you won't ever do. And you can't say that you won't have forgiveness in your heart if there were to be an issue like that. "

" I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget. "

" Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. "

" It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. "

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

" I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell. "

" What is forgiven is usually well remembered. "

" God forgive you, but I never can. "

" Prejudice is sinful. All blood flows red. And the most harmful and foolish kind of prejudice is prejudice against yourself. Every woman is your sister, and every woman needs her sisters. So try to give other women the courtesy of your compassion, respect, and forgiveness. Love yourself despite - and because of - your flaws. "

Jewell Parker Rhodes

" Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense. "

" And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness. "

Joseph J. Ellis

" God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency. "

" 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

" 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. "

" Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. "

" Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. "

" 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. "

Simon Wiesenthal

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

" The spirit of forgiveness should prevail, and there should be tolerance and understanding among all political parties for us to move forward. "

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

" Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity. "

Mother Angelica