"Forgiving is good for your health."
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"I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the best parts. It didn't matter that he couldn't love me, that had nothing to do with it. But if I couldn't forgive him, then I could not love him, and that part of me was gone. And I found eventually that I wanted it back." ({Lord John, Drums of Autumn}"
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"As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins."
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"We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It's much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons."
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"Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal."
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"You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it."
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"Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce."
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"But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget."
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"I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last."
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"Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time."
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"He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all."
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"Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot."
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"Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them."
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"To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing."
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"It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment."
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"Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic."
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"My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things."
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"You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies, the pond sucking out the throb."
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"In order to forgive, you must have blamed."
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"Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent"
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