"Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him."
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"Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you."
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"And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all."
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"There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him."
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"Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment."
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"You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you."
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"My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us."
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"While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive."
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"If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father."
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"Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally."
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"Dance with her, and she will forgive much. Dance well, and she will forgive anything."
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"What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness."
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"You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me."
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"Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives."
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"At seventeen most people get their ears pierced or get a tattoo or something slightly taboo. That is what I love about Rodrigo Garcia, he's not conventional. He's someone who sees people in extraordinary ways, and forgives them for being such."
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"But do you remember Gandalf’s words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam"
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"If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven."
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"There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God."
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"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects."
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"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
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