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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
C.S. Lewis
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
Josiah Bailey
He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and love his enemies; but the joyful feeling of love and forgiveness of his enemies filled his soul.
Leo Tolstoy
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
Bryant H. McGill
I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.
John Rowland
To be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
Kahlil Gibran
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Forgiveness is God's command.
Martin Luther
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime;Therefore, we must be saved by hope.Nothing which is true, or beautiful, or good, makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;Therefore, we must be saved by faith.Nothing we do, however virtuous, could be accomplished alone;Therefore, we must be saved by love.No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint;Therefore, we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
Reinhold Niebuhr
The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.
Walter Brower
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Henry Ward Beecher
Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.
Paulo Coelho
Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done. When you get to that time that is now, make a full and total forgiveness of your entire life and smile at the bouquet in your hands because it truly is beautiful.
Stephen Richards
she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever
Jane Austen
Mistakes are your school of learning therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning.
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.
Christopher Hitchens
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
Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
Nancy Grace