"If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light."
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"In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die."
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"Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you."
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"Lord, forgive the times I tried to read your mind."
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"Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong."
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"If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless."
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"When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit."
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"The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else."
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"Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust."
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."
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"To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius."
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"An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it."
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"I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how."
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"Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves."
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"Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others."
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"Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender."
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"Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer."
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"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."
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"The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him."
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"They who forgive most shall be most forgiven."
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