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We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.
C.S. Lewis
Many people hold onto a grudge because it offers the illusion of power and a perverse feeling of security. But in fact, we are held hostage by our anger. It is never too late to forgive. But you can forgive too soon. I am especially wary of what I call saintly forgiveness. Premature forgiveness is common among people who avoid conflict. They're afraid of their own anger and the anger of others. But their forgiveness is false. Their anger goes underground. I define forgiving as letting someone back into your heart. This returns us to a loving state -- and not merely within the relationship -- we feel good about ourselves and the world. True forgiveness isn't easy, but it transforms us significantly. To forgive is to love and to feel worthy of love. In that sense, it is always worthwhile.
Robert Karen, Phd, Bottom Line P
I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.
Kristin Chenoweth
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Billy Graham
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
Alexander Chase
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
T. D. Jakes
Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! Cosette, that man is an angel!
Victor Hugo
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
Mahavira
The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
Rick Perry
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
George Eliot
I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
If there is a God, he'll have to beg my forgiveness.
Anonymous
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
Steve Maraboli
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,Men were deceivers ever,-One foot in sea and one on shore,To one thing constant never.
William Shakespeare
The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.
Stephen Richards
Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
Henry Miller
