In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
-- Hillary Rodham Clinton:
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me
-- Robert Frost
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies -- it is the first law of nature.
-- Voltaire.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
-- William Blake
I would build a bridge a hundred meters long,
To see the other side of what I did wrong,
Well you say you don't hate me, but I guess that I'm scared,
That with a river between us, you'll no longer care.
-- Marc Gunn, The Bridge.
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
-- Buddha.
4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
-- Ephesians, 4:31-4:32.
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.
-- C. S. Lewis.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
-- J. S. Knox.
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.
-- Thomas Merton.
Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.
-- Mother Teresa.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-- Mahatma Gandhi.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
-- Mark Twain.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
-- Aesop.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
-- Albert Einstein.
Mr. Gorbatchev, tear down this wall!
-- Ronald Reagan.
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