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Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. ↗

— Charles Williams

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It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men. ↗

— Charles Williams

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I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. ↗

— Robert Frost

#poetry #religion #forgiveness

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts. ↗

— Mary Chesnut

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You can’t imagine how much I regret what happened. For some reason, because of the type of relationship we had, I thought it was an acceptable training exercise; albeit a little extreme. But I’m not going to ask your forgiveness, I don’t want it. I mean to always remember my mistake, so I will never make it again.” (Micah to Kaitlyn) ↗

— Terra Harmony

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He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. ↗

— John Green

#inspirational #life #forgiveness

On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has never been a war." She stopped reading, to rest her eyes and because she was trying to train herself to read slowly. "There has never been a war." In her mind the words stood clear and bright, surrounded by and sinking into an infinite, dark, soft incredulity. What would that world be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality. But my people, she thought, know only how to deny. Born in the dark shadow of power misused, we set peace outside our world, a guiding and unattainable light. All we know to do is fight. Any peace one of us can make in our life is only a denial that the war is going on, a shadow of the shadow, a doubled unbelief. So as the cloud-shadows swept over the marshes and the page of the book open on her lap, she sighed and closed her eyes. thinking, "I am a liar." Then she opened her eyes and read more about the other worlds, the far realities. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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