"You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution."
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies."
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"If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation."
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"Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness."
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"Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are."
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"Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive."
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"Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart."
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"Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable."
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"Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me."
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"His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong."
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"Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive."
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"Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship."
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"We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them."
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"In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path."
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"Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender"
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"Pray you now, forget and forgive."
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"The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped."
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"Everything is ended if you forgive and forget."
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"Forgotten is forgiven."
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"I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement."
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