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When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
Dylan Thomas
To progress is always to begin always to begin again
Martin Luther King Jr.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. Job 14:17
Bible
And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. Ephesians 1:7
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
C.S. Lewis
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope
Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.
Ella Higginson
I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.
T. D. Jakes
Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
Mackenzie Phillips
To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Grace Hopper
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Mason Cooley
The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
Simon Wiesenthal
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
Ambrose Bierce
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Ogden Nash
But with morning cool repentance came.
Sir Walter Scott