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If
we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.
-- Mother
Teresa |
"It
takes courage and commitment to act in a more forgiving fashion. It is not at
all a sign of weakness but a mark of strength."
-- Carl Thorensen
Genuine
forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. .
. We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience
of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.
-- Paul Tillich
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"Let
us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace”
-- Leo
Tolstoy |
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"...in
a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future."
-- Desmond
Tutu "Forgiveness
is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly.
Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are."
-- Desmond Tutu
"Forgiveness
and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities.
They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real
sense, without forgiveness, there is no future."
-- Desmond
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Forgiveness
is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
-- Mark
Twain |
Always
forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
-- Oscar Wilde
Sometimes
I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like
the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
-- Dar Williams
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The
practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the
world.
-- Marianne
Williamson Forgiveness
is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered,
to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
--
Marianne Williamson The
first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
-- Marianne
Williamson |
Our past is a story
existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly
as possible, chuck it.
--
Marianne Williamson
"If
I hold a grudge because I'm angry, I feel strong. But to set that anger aside
takes real strength."
-- Everett L. Worthington, Jr.
"Until
recently, the tools of science have not been employed to investigate forgiveness.
The new wave of research we've begun, however, has the potential to reveal the
profound value of forgiveness in our lives -- information that could reduce human
misery and increase the quality of life worldwide."
-- Everett L. Worthington,
Jr.
Remember,
a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
-- Brigham Young
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Reconciliation
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- April 2
Forgiveness
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- First Sunday in August
