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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Rita Mae Brown
    “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
    Rita Mae Brown

  • #3
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
    John F. Kennedy

  • #4
    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.”
    Henri J.M. Nouwen

  • #5
    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    Plato

  • #6
    Max Lucado
    “Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!”
    max lucado

  • #7
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.”
    Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

  • #8
    William Arthur Ward
    “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
    William Arthur Ward

  • #9
    Confucius
    “To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”
    Confucius

  • #10
    Natsuki Takaya
    “To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?”
    Natsuki Takaya

  • #11
    Andrew Matthews
    “Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit.”
    Andrew Matthews

  • #12
    Nicole Krauss
    “I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #13
    Garrison Keillor
    “Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”
    Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Ellen Hopkins
    “Some people
    Never find the right kind of love
    you know, the kind that steals
    your breath away.
    Like diving into a snowmelt.
    The kind that jolts your heart,
    sets it beating apace.
    An anxious hiccuping of hummingbirds wings.
    The kind that makes every terrible minute apart feel like hours.
    Days.
    Years.
    Some people flit from one insane possibility to the next.
    Never experincing the connection of two people.
    rocked by destiny.
    Never knowing what it means to love someone else,
    more than themselves.
    More than life itself, or the promise of something better.
    Beyond this world,
    More even (forgive me!) than god.
    Lucky me, I found the right kind of love.
    With the wrong person.”
    Ellen Hopkins, Tricks

  • #16
    Anne Lamott
    “Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
    Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

  • #17
    H.L. Mencken
    “If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”
    H. L. Mencken

  • #18
    William Blake
    “The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
    William Blake

  • #19
    Thomas Szasz
    “The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
    Thomas Szasz

  • #20
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

  • #21
    William Paul Young
    “Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.”
    Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

  • #22
    William Carlos Williams
    This is Just to Say

    I have eaten
    the plums
    that were in
    the icebox

    and which
    you were probably
    saving
    for breakfast

    Forgive me
    they were delicious
    so sweet
    and so cold”
    William Carlos Williams

  • #23
    Leonard Cohen
    “Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #24
    Donald Miller
    “Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuck's book across the room because we secretly wonder if God in heaven noticed our evil jealousy, or worse, our laziness. We then lie across the couch facedown and mumble to God to forgive us because we are secretly afraid He is going to dry up all our words because we envied another man's stupid words. And for this, as I said, we are paid a dollar. We are worth so much more.”
    Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

  • #25
    William Paul Young
    “Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.”
    Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

  • #26
    Bruce Lee
    “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
    Bruce Lee

  • #27
    John      Piper
    “Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.”
    John Piper, God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

  • #28
    Betty  Smith
    “Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • #29
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Never forget the nine most important words of any family-

    I love you.
    You are beautiful.
    Please forgive me.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.

  • #30
    George Carlin
    “This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen. ”
    George Carlin



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