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"To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife."
"My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him."
"The cut worm forgives the plow."
"If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?"
"What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves To wash it white as snow?"
"When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless."
"We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken."
"I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love."
"This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin."
"One of the things that perhaps we can learn through the political process about bringing people together is to remember South Carolina, remember the families of the nine victims, how they brought a community together during the worst atrocity in our state's history, i am thankful that I live in a country where forgiveness can be seen in the worst of conditions."
"To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none"
"He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent."
"No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us."
"If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving."
"The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother."
"In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action."
"The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon."
"The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness."
"Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun."
"For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!"
