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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.
Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event - it's a process.
Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.
There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved.
You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.
Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.
I can't turn the clock back but I can seek the forgiveness of those I've wronged.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.
I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.