"When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner."
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"Your fellowship with God flows freely when you're willing to forgive, but it gets blocked by unforgiveness."
"Forgiving makes me feel free and light. I forgive everyone, including myself"
"Whenever we are ill, we need to search our hearts to see what we need to forgive."
"As I forgive, I set myself free and experience the bliss of inner peace."
"Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it."
"Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven."
"My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified."
"May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it."
"I must forgive without noise or fuss."
"Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly."
"If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not"
"We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver."
"You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it."
"O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station."
"It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross."
"Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without."
"It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work."
"When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future."
"Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!"