"Never repeat old grievances."
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"Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues."
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"Cats know not how to pardon."
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"Do you think that every time you make a mistake, He is mad at you and won't talk to you...or that you must somehow make up for it?...Many Christians fail to experience real peace because they don't understand that they are righteous in Christ. Until people stop living according to the way they feel and stand on who they are in Christ, they will never find true happiness."
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"One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it."
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"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us."
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"Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness."
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"On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute."
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"Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill."
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"The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact."
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"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."
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"Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides."
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"Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness."
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"Malice drinks one-half of its own poison."
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"I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community."
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"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
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"The offender never pardons."
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"When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts."
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"It is by forgiving that one is forgiven."
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"Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones."
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