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For the one who forgives, finds strength untold, In choosing kindness, a heart unfolds, And as forgiveness spreads its wings, A symphony of healing it sings.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
10 months ago

God: God created this violent world, he allows the evil and violence to exist in this world, he forgives evil people when they should be punished and he punishes good people when they should be forgiven. God is clearly not good.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
2 years ago

Our eternal reward forgives us at the palace of wisdom.

Mitchell Koger

added by mitchkoger
4 years ago

Ed and Peggy Schaeffer, I forgive you for your anger and hatred towards me, i pray to God that he forgives you for your anger and hatred towards me.

Charles Rhines

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I like a cat because it does not disguise its selfishness with any flattering hypocrisies. Its attachment is not to yourself, but to your house. Let it but have food, and a warm lair among the embers, and it heeds not at whose expense. Then it has the spirit to resent aggression. You shall beat your dog, and he will fawn upon you; but a cat never forgives : it has no tender mercies, and it torments before it destroys its prey.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

Apologies are not needed or possible here, we need forgiveness, that everyone forgives everyone else.

Momcilo Krajisnik

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

God forgives and forgets sins, but He never forgets a good deed.

John Herro

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

Minna Antrim

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Minna Antrim

added by anonymous
13 years ago

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

La Rochefoucauld

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Dag Hammarskjld

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Christians rejoice because God is their heavenly Father who forgives the penitent, because God sent his Son into the world for the salvation of all who have faith, because Jesus Christ not only died but was raised again from the dead and because joy is one of the ninefold fruits of the Spirit.

W. G. Morrice

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Lawana Blackwell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.

Alden Nowlan

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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