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I forgive you. Case closed.” Is not the final answer love is the final answer no matter how long it may take – The Book of Hosea!

Better to be blinded by love than hate one forgives and the other refuses.

Forgiveness is no easy task it takes a lifetime of remembering to move on

Love is the greatest gift we can give to one another.

It’s not just others that you need to forgive learn to be kind and forgiving towards your own self.

Saying 'I'm sorry' earns you my attention proving you're sorry earns you my heart.

Vengeance is primitive which is why only two species in the universe practice it: humans and animals.

The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering the first step to forgiveness is realising that we're all human and we all share the same capacity for fallibility and foible the first step to growth is to recognise the value of things that are outside your current mental frameworks so that you can grow into them.

Hatred is exhausting. You must constantly remind yourself why you hate someone and waste needless energy to keep hating them.Forgiveness you only need to do it once!

One who forgives his enemies conquers them one who loves his enemies conquers himself.

It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care.

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.

Whenever anyone harbored ill will toward the beast or said he'd got what he deserved, the spell increased and the evil grew stronger and stronger in the gargoyle. It became more and more difficult for people to forgive-and love-not only the beast, but each other as well. This, too, made the evil increase.

Do all the good you can while you still have the opportunity.

Raise your thoughts, not your fists.

With thousands of years of history frozen in time, it's no wonder that many southerners like me romanticize the north as a place where we can freeze our former selves, thaw, and then bloom anew. Here it’s just you, the land, and your thoughts, and you can't leave until you've wrestled with yourself and emerged a survivor. But then again, the light is much more intense up here and everything looks different because of it. The sun hasn’t set in a couple of months, and you can see things much more

The reason people will attack you never really has anything to do with you. It stems from their OWN evil thoughts that they entertain and from wanting and not getting their way.

When we forgive, we're saying to our heart that we are ready to move on.

When we forgive, we're telling our heart that we are ready to move on.

Blaming others doesn't certify your goodness.

...if a person remains in a state of unforgiveness the Spirit of the Lord will allow tormentors to enter him. That's what Christ told Peter when the disciple asked, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" (Matt. 18:21).

Self-Forgiveness is the most important wand in all of Diagon Alley™.

If you can’t forgive and move on, then your feelings will grow and fester and they will eat you alive.

Turning something over to the Holy Spirit is a leap of faith that lets go of attempting to control outcomes. The core of alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, smoking and a host of things the world calls addictions is control. The little willingness the Holy Spirit asks is the key to letting go of the attempt to manage the body and the world, which is the insane attempt to maintain a self-concept image that God did not create. An idea to contemplate from the Course is this: "Seek not to change the worl

God is merciful.God is faithful.

Love mercy, love kindness.

The path of imperfection is the loving way to learn tolerance and happiness.

To hold the power of affection and maintain the roots of love, you must stay trusted.

If you can find a cause that touches your soul it will make you a better person, it will show you the power of helping others and ultimately the biggest winner is us. Giving to others helps us to grow, to have a different outlook in life, to appreciate what we have and to be more positive.

I am redeemed and saved by grace.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

I don't forgive people, but I don't let them bother me either!

Hate may have its hour, but love will have its day.

If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.

Ask your wife for forgiveness, even when you’re right.

The person who offends, and the person who has been offended and awaiting for a revenge have one thing in common: the real uncertainties of tomorrow is truly uncertain to both of them.

There in its nasty, stinking, underground home our insulted, crushed and ridiculed mouse promptly becomes absorbed in cold, malignant and, above all, everlasting spite. For forty years together it will remember its injury down to the smallest, most ignominious details, and every time will add, of itself, details still more ignominious, spitefully teasing and tormenting itself with its own imagination. It will itself be ashamed of its imaginings, but yet it will recall it all, it will go over and

Seventy times seven" is a medicine for a healing community, not for a community with all the answers beforehand and all the appropriate punishments afterwards.

Divine grace is available for each one of us.

When someone is filled with the Holy Spirit’s power and is zealous to do good, their “fire” for God will always expose their enemies. It was the fire that made the snake come out and bite Paul.“Paul gathered a pile of sticks for the fire. He was putting the sticks on the fire, and a poisonous snake came out because of the heat and bit him on the hand.”Acts 28:3

Wisdom of the Ages: "Forgiveness" Steroids for the Soul.

Don't wound someone's eye trying to remove the twig from it.

You can't restore anything you've previously done, but you can face up to it. You can enlighten the reality. You can entreat forgiveness. And then let God decide and do the rest.

I have so much health problems, but I believe I could still make it through.

God extend His power of great mercy and forgiveness to all men.

You are not responsible for anything that happens to you as a child but you are 100% responsible for your own healing.

An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous life. To err is human; to seek penance is humankind’s unique act of salvation. Whenever a person fails, it is often their overwhelming sense of anguish that drives them forward to make a second attempt that is far more bighearted than they originally envisioned. The need for redemption drives us to try again despite our backside enduring the terrible weight of our greatest catastrophes. There is no

Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself.

Self love and forgiveness is a liberation.

Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned

It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards.

Accept God's love, unconditional love.

God's grace is the power to forgiveness.

Life is a chain of interrelated puzzles.Pain and Sorrow are some necessities to greater heights and people may be the architects of our woes. We may develop some hatred for such people through whom the woes of life came our way but when we get to the point where we fully understand why sorrow and pain came our way, we ought to be grateful to those through whom the woes that propelled us to our greatness came.

All men are guilty of the wrong they have done.

It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.

Step ahead immediately and do what you have to do before it's too late.

An open heart has greater power than a clenched fist.

To forgive is a decision, to forget takes effort, to heal is a process, to believe again takes courage.

No matter what kind of sin you have committed, there is always forgiveness. You must repent and seek for forgiveness. You can walk in the new life and light.

Breathe a word of prayer, not anger.

Welcome the righteous,avoid the wicked,and yet open both arms to the repentant.Whoever receives them receives God.

Love always trust and forgives.

n order to capture someone's attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in.

Forgiveness is the highest degree of a trust in a better man

Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.

Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow.

Unforgiveness is so much stress, I tell you. You just keep going round in circles instead of taking a straight path which forgiveness offers.

Just feel forgiveness in your heart. The universe will hear you and that will be enough.

We can ask for forgiveness, from a god, from a friend, a lover, even ourselves. We can ask for forgiveness from all of the people we’ve wronged, but we can never get back the one thing we’re truly hoping to find when we asked: our innocence—the person we were before that piece of us was taken, ripped away and shattered at our feet, leaving us to learn how to pick ourselves back up and move past it.

God is merciful to all who repent and turn to Him.

Confess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages.

It is gracious to overlook an offence.

Forgiveness is strength.The strength to move ahead without any resentment.

I forgive,” Penny said. “But I don’t forget. I’ll remember the kind of gum you were chewing when you did me wrong.

I’m sure she didn’t mean what she said. Life’s too short to hold grudges.” “No, you just have to organize your time better,” Elaine said. “I believe in grudges. They help you survive.

There’s a destructive power in unforgiveness and unforgiveness controls you in a negative way. It’s time to let it all go! You become strong when you genuinely forgive. You become empowered when you genuinely forgive. You gain back your inner peace when you genuinely forgive. You release stress, bitterness and anger when you genuinely forgive. But most importantly, you’re able to live your best life when you genuinely forgive. Give yourself permission to live life free of toxic thoughts, feeling

There’s a destructive power in unforgiveness and unforgiveness controls you in a negative way. It’s time to let it all go! You become strong when you genuinely forgive. You become empowered when you genuinely forgive. You gain back your inner peace when you genuinely forgive. You release stress, bitterness, and anger when you genuinely forgive. But most importantly, you’re able to live your best life when you genuinely forgive. Give yourself permission to live life free of toxic thoughts, feelin

Fast forgiveness is a part of Christian culture I want to help change and transform. I ache for a journey of Jesus-like forgiveness. The kind demanding time and suffering in the process.

Forgiveness is the best way to disempower the enemy.

I believe one of the most important reasons I am here today is to practice forgiveness and to learn the power of it as a gift to others and myself. By focusing on forgiveness in my life today, I am promoting my healing and lessening my regrets.

The shift from thinking that I must feel forgiveness to the practice of repetitive giving forgiveness has helped me in my healing journey.

Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice.

We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive—and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation.

Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.

We need to extend forgiveness to all who have hurt us. Forgive others who have trespass you just as your Heavenly Father forgives you. God's grace is the power to forgiveness.

Forgiving someone else doesn't give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on.

You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!

Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don’t think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.

Yesterday is done. Today has just begun. I am not going let anyone's negative issues do anything to me other than inspire me to do better.

For me it's NOT to, It's "For"give; As Given it's NOT you "For"given

If you keep your heart open, that same pain can become a purifying pain, a strengthening pain. If we choose forgiveness over bitterness, that pain can heal instead of hurt. Instead of a pain that divides, it can be a pain that binds. Instead of a pain that breaks us down, it can be a pain that builds us up.

Forgiveness is not a gift you give someone else, forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself.

In order to forgive an offender,we have first to forgive ourselves,then we can forgive them.In this way we are nothelpless victims anymore,we regain our power,acting from our peaceful placeof power.

To forgive others, in order to forgive ourselves, because in their roles as our mirrors, they have been nothing other than a tool to our lack of self-love, a lack of self-recognition, and a lack of self-respect.

Sometimes it’s hard to know when to let go. It can be so personal…like the autumn leaf still hanging on the limb in the late October sky, Mother Nature sends a gust of wind to nudge it’s stem loose. For us we must listen for our own nudge from the inner soul. We must know…we will feel, it’s ok to let it be. *“Whispers words of wisdom let it be.” - Wes Adamson* “Let It Be” lyrics by Paul McCartney

When you feel angry or frustrated at a brother for using a particular defense -- being controlling or whatever it is -- you are failing to forgive yourself for the very same attempt; you still believe that the defense has a reality. You are seeing it out there but when you start to pull it back to your mind, you start to see the control in yourself. The guilt from transferring it from one seeming person/body to another seeming person/body is enormous. Instead of blaming your brother, the blame g

The symbols and the gifts and the tools of Awakening are noticed everywhere once you have opened your heart to them. They are free and Freely Given. They come with blessings and with no cost or sacrifice. They come easily to a willing heart and open mind. Be not afraid of Love. Love comes as a Friend and the Holy Spirit is Friendly and Gentle.

Still the dream persists, suppressed but always there, that somehow by some miraculous effort of the heart what was done could be undone. What form would such atonement take that would turn back time and bring the dead to life? None. None possible, not in the real world. And yet in my imaginings I can clearly see this cleansed new creature steaming up out of myself like a proselyte rising drenched from the baptismal river amid glad cries.