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• I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling when or if we should meet again, and I certainly did not need him saying, 'Ah yes, Poe, the fellow whose trespasses i could have forgiven in their entirety... except for the tongue thing. Yes, for that, you must surely die.'

  Peter David

  Temptation, Needs, Tongue

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• The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your expertise. Offer instead to teach him about the Tao. Why did the ancient Masters esteem the Tao? Because, being one with the Tao, when you seek, you find; and when you make a mistake, you are forgiven. That is why everybody loves it.

  Laozi

  Mistake, Men, Leader

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• Before we can experience the pure & serene state of love, we must learn how to give forgiveness - to ourselves & to others. Have you forgiven yourself?

  Debbie Ford

  Giving, States, Serene

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• Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Toads, Tarantulas

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull”, p.44, e-artnow

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• And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on

  Jim Bakker

  Forgiving, Enemy, Trying

  "The Best of Interviews With Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner". “CNN Larry King Weekend”, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.

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• The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Gratitude, Expression, Order

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.48, Multnomah

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• A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.

  Brennan Manning

  Heart, Forgiving, Turns

  Brennan Manning (2013). “NIV, Ragamuffin Bible, eBook: Meditations for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Brokenhearted”, p.140, Harper Collins

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• Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Forgiving, Important

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.178, New World Library

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• On the one hand stand salvation by free grace for Christ's sake; but on the other stands renewal of the carnal heart by the Spirit. We must be changed as well as forgiven; we must be renewed as well as redeemed.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Hands, Grace

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• If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I answer, 'He is under a ruinous delusion, and is not forgiven at all.' I would not believe he is forgiven if an angel from heaven affirmed it, and I charge you not to believe it too. Pardon of sin and love of sin are like oil and waterthey will never go together. All who are washed in the blood of Christ, are also sanctified by the Spirit of Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Believe, Angel, Men

  "Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity".

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• And all of a sudden, all of my sins came before me. Everything I had ever done wrong that I had forgotten about years ago came into my mind. And I prayed, Lord, forgive me, may the blood of Jesus Christ cleanse me from all of my sins... not because of my good works or because of all the things I have tried to do, but because the Lord had forgiven me.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Blood, Years

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• Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

  Marie Howe

  Envy, Suffering

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• You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way.

  Mark Lynas

  Mean, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world is yours and you're the answer to the Wright brothers' prayers. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong ... all my trespasses are forgiven. Best you not believe it.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Brother, Prayer, Believe

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• Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. ... I know what regret feels like; I've earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.

  Barbara Johnson

  Regret, Hate, Past

  "Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around".

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• Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word 'as' in that clause." What makes the 'as' so terrifying? The fact that Jesus plainly links our forgiven-ness by the Father with our forgiving-ness of fellow human beings. Jesus' next remark could not be more explicit: 'If you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.'

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.87, Harper Collins

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• If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Anger, Blow

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

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• What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen in place of God.

  David F. Wells

  Choices, Who We Are, Sinfulness

  David F. Wells (2008). “The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World”, p.167, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Regret, Temptation, Lasts

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• Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those who reform will be forgiven; Why the good will be rewarded, And the thief who is cunning will escape.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Reform, Thieves

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• Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

  Pope Francis

  Church, Mercy

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• Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails, for they have waited for their masters and mistresses for many years. You see mothers who have missed their sons. Fathers who had never spoken of love to their children, ready to embrace them as they voyage from the end of life. It shows the lies of this world, you see. We are wrong about so many things here. Mankind has done terrible things, yet we are forgiven.

  Douglas Clegg

  Mother, Dog, Children

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• Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole now admired and respected him deeply... His unscrupulous past and cynical opportunism were being largely forgotten or forgiven. He was gradually becoming recognized not only as the prophet of a new Conservatism, at once compassionate at home and positive abroad, but as a great statesmen whom the Queen did well to honour. Power had brought responsibility. By 1878 the transformation in public attitudes towards Disraeli was complete.

  Christopher Hibbert

  Queens, Attitude, Responsibility

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• He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  History, Done, British History

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• Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Forgiving, Serious, Weakness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.174, NavPress

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