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At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable. ↗

— Donald Miller

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You can't save everyone and leave yourself lost, October. It isn't fair. Not to you and not to the people who care about you." "I'm not lost Tybalt," I said. It was oddly hard to meet his eyes now that they registered as human. His irises were supposed to be malachite green, not muddy hazel, and his pupils were supposed to be oval, not round. "I know exactly where I am." A smile crossed his face. "If I believed that, I would walk away and never darken your door again. I can forgive you your foolishness only because I know how lost you are. But one day, you'll have to come back home. When you do, I hope you'll find me waiting. ↗

— Seanan McGuire

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~Mahatma Gandhi He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~George Herbert ↗

— Gandhi

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Forgiveness is a promise not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sin against them. ↗

— Brett

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The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life. ↗

— P. Remes

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The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus ↗

— William Shakespeare

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He has left nothing except for a note, which I find neatly folded under one of my sneakers. The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

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Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened. ↗

— Harold S. Kushner

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Great feuds often need very few words to resolve them. Disputes, even between nations, between peoples, can be set to rest with simple acts of contrition and corresponding forgiveness, can so often be shown to be based on nothing much other than pride and misunderstanding, and the forgetting of the humanity of the other -- and land, of course. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

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