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• It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

  Patty Duke

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Grieving

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• You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

  E. W. Howe

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology

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• Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Forgiving

  Francis Bacon (1861). “Literary and Professional Works”, p.154

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• One forgives to the degree that one loves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Valentines Day, Forgiveness, Life Changing

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• Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

  William P. Young

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Forgive And Forget

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• He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

  Thomas Fuller

  Forgiveness, Peace, Men

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• He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

  George Herbert

  Forgiveness, Bridges, Heaven

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• If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

  Dolores Huerta

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

  William Blake

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Headstone

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• What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Power Of Forgiveness

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.78, BookBaby

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

  Marlene Dietrich

  Marriage, Forgiveness, Women

  Marlene Dietrich's ABC (1962)

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• It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

  Alistair Begg

  People, Facts, Sin

  Alistair Begg (2009). “The Hand of God: Finding His Care in All Circumstances”, p.167, Moody Publishers

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• Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away in the blood of the Lamb. Thus, my friend archbishop Joe Reia says, "A sad Christian is a phony Christian, and a guilty Christian is no Christian at all.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Men, Blood

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.75, Multnomah

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• The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Happiness, Forgiveness, Spiritual

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Forgiveness, Sublime

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• He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

  Paul Tillich

  Failure, Design, Risk

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• And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

  Rick Warren

  Forgiveness, Reality, People

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• Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Names, Two

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Sin, Undone

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• Forgotten is forgiven.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Forgotten

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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• How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Forgiveness, Sorry, Sorrow

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• 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 Nouwen

  Forgiveness, Names, People

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• Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Forgiveness, Pride, Forever

  "Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.

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• You have been forgiven, so act like it!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Forgiveness, Has Beens

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