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  • Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.

    "No Greater Love".
  • How to forgive a murderer? First, by differentiating his sufferings from his exploitation of death to ease them. For his sufferings - greed, jealousy, frustration - he will need reeducation, support and, compassion. For our outrage about murder, we need to examine deeply our faith in death. As long as we collectively believe that death has power over life, we will spawn deluded, self-appointed little gods who want that power.

    D. Patrick Miller (2009). “The Way of Forgiveness: Letting Go, Easing Stress, and Building Strength”, p.30, Fearless Books
  • I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

    Pain   People   Childhood  
  • The brave only know how to forgive.

    Laurence Sterne (1873). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author”, p.139, London : Bickers, H. Sotheran
  • Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

    "Sermons" by Laurence Sterne, vol. I, No. 12, 1760.
  • Forgiveness is the final form of love.

  • If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.

  • She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.

    Hurt   Heart   Animal  
    Elizabeth George (2007). “A Suitable Vengeance”, p.446, Bantam
  • You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

  • Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

    George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.1838, Delphi Classics
  • The weak can never forgive.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black
  • Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

    "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.
  • Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

    Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics
  • That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.625, e-artnow
  • When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

  • Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.

  • It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

  • Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.

    Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.
  • One forgives to the degree that one loves.

  • Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

    Love   Hurt   Pain  
  • We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.

  • “I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

    "Gems of Truth & Beauty".
  • I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.

    Past   Forgiving   Trying  
  • If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

  • If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

    Strong   Issues   People  
  • How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?

    Life   Fall   Blow  
  • A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

    Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

    Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Love Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.94, Random House
  • Everybody kind of has to learn the same lessons. You've got to learn how to get over your first love. You've got to learn how to forgive people that emotionally abuse you. You've got to learn how to let go in a lot of ways.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.

    Jesus   People   Giving  
    "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. May 13, 2011.
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