Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors...

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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