forgiveness

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Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

- Oprah Winfrey

2.

Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.

- Lutzer, Erwin W.

3.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. [Ephesians 1:7]

- Bible

4.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

- Brown, Les

5.

Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

- Confucius

6.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

7.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

- Szasz, Thomas

8.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

- William Shakespeare

9.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Boese, Paul

10.

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.

- Max Lucado

11.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

- Ficke, Arthur Davison

12.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

- Dietrich, Marlene

13.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

- Ibsen, Henrik

14.

Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.

- Proverb

15.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

- Huxley, Aldous

16.

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

- Stewart's Law of Retroaction

17.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

- Bierce, Ambrose

18.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

- Richter, Jean Paul

19.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

- Lawana Blackwell

20.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

- Peter Ustinov