#forgive

Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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Lord help my poor soul. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ↗

— Roberto Assagioli

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A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was. ↗

— Stephen Richards

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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. ↗

— Hannah More

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Never lose Faith. Always have hope. Love for always. ↗

— J.B. McGee

#this-series #faith

Women are so unfair. Just by smiling once, they could make you forgive them for everything. ↗

— Go Ikeyamada

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Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives. Poke knew that, though. Bean warned her, and she knew it, but she chose Achilles for their papa anyway. Chose him and then died for it. She was like that Jesus that Helga preached about in her kitchen while they ate. She died for her people. And Achilles, he was like God. He made people pay for their sins no matter what they did. The important thing is, stay on the good side of God. That's what Helga teaches, isn't it? Stay right with God. I'll stay right with Achilles. I'll honor my papa, that's for sure, so I can stay alive until I'm old enough to go out on my own. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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