"It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men"
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"We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior."
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"I have never targeted Muslims. I have never targeted Jews. I believe that we should declare the fact that God loves you, God's willing to forgive you, God can change you, and Christ and his kingdom is open to anybody who repents and by faith receives him as lord and savior."
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"To understand is to forgive."
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"Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug"
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"[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution."
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"If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me."
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"Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive."
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"Forgive that you may be forgiven."
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"To be social is to be forgiving."
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"A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious."
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving."
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"I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you."
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"Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people."
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"We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever."
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"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."
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"We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere."
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"Forgive your enemies, but first get even."
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"Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?"
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"Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not."
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