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The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

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Better you forgive than being right. Put your pride in your pocket and bring out Love for CHRIST sake. ↗

— James C. Uwandu

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Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive. That it should be not like a palace with marble walls and polished floors, and guards standing at the door, but like a tree with its roots deep in the soil, that shelters every kind of bird and beast and gives blossom in the spring and shade in the hot sun and fruit in the season, and in time gives up its good sound wood for the carpenter; but that sheds many thousands of seeds so that new trees can grow in its place. Does the tree say to the sparrow, 'Get out, you don't belong here?' Does the tree say to the hungry man, 'This fruit is not for you?' Does the tree test the loyalty of the beasts before it allows them into the shade? ↗

— Philip Pullman

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On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level. ↗

— Edward Albert

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. ↗

— Jane Austen

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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

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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