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"Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain."
"I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon."
"Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women."
"If one by one we counted people out"
"Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory."
"Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation."
"What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you."
"Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another."
"If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against."
"Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago."
"We forgive but not forgotten"
"Let the punishment match the offense."
"We pardon as long as we love."
"As long as we love, we can forgive."
"Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution."
"I discovered that forgiveness is a path to freedom."
"One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything."
"The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones."
"Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?"
"Forgiveness is the divinest of victories."
