"If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us."
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"When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly."
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"Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."
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"People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success."
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"Forgive yourself - no one else will."
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"I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle."
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"The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it."
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"To not forgive is to drink a little poison each day and expect the other person to die."
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"Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone."
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"It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her."
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"Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us."
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"I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?"
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"Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free."
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"At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable."
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"Forgive, but don't forget"
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"Good to forgive, Best to forget."
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"Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)"
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"Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon."
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"I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all."
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"I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back."
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