“ Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3K
“ The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. ”
- Catherine Ponder- Copy
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“ A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-doing and redress, is basically a forgiving society. ”
- Adrienne Clarkson- Copy
- 261
“ The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him. ”
- St. Teresa of Avila- Copy
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“ No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart. ”
- J.C. Ryle- Copy
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“ I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
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“ Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 3.3K
“ And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Be kind to one another; tenderhearted, forgiving one another; even as in Christ God forgave you. ”
- The Bible- Copy
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“ If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries… the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving. ”
- Robert Anthony- Copy
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“ Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
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“ Love means to love that which is unloveable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all; faith means believing the unbelievable, or it is no virtue at all; And to hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. ”
- G.K. Chesterton- Copy
- 610
“ The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing… is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving. ”
- Joseph Ratzinger- Copy
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“ But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round… as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, faith means believing the unbelievable, and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice; and be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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