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Forgiveness. See ATONEMENT; VICARIOUS ATONEMENT
forgiveness ::: n. --> The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries.
Disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive.
forgiveness of her sins. The angel raises her up,
forgiven ::: p. p. --> of Forgive
forgiver ::: n. --> One who forgives.
forgive ::: to excuse for a fault or an offense; pardon.
forgive ::: v. t. --> To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven.
To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending.
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25. Origen’s belief in a “final restitution,” when God would forgive all his sinning creatures, even the most
absolution ::: n. --> An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent.
The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.
An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for
Acariya. (S. AcArya, Thai, AchAn; T. slob dpon; C. asheli; J. ajari; K. asari 阿闍梨). In PAli, "teacher." A monk takes an Acariya if he has lost his preceptor (P. upajjhAya; S. UPADHYAYA) and is still in need of guidance (nissaya, S. NIsRAYA). A preceptor is said to be lost when he goes away, disrobes, dies, joins another religion, or has expelled the monk under his guidance for wrongdoing. To act as an Acariya, a monk must possess the same qualifications as required of an upajjhAya; namely, he must be competent in DHARMA and VINAYA and be of at least ten years standing in the order since his own ordination. The monk taken under the guidance of the Acariya is called his ANTEVASIKA, or pupil. The relationship between teacher and pupil is compared to that of father and son. The teacher is enjoined to teach dhamma and vinaya to his pupil and to supply him with all necessary requisites, such as robes (see TRICĪVARA) and alms bowl (PATRA). He should tend to him if he is ill and discipline him if he commits wrongdoing. If the pupil should begin to entertain doubts about the dispensation or his abilities to practice, the teacher must try to dispel them. If the pupil should commit a grave offense against the rules of the SAMGHA, the teacher is to prevail upon him to go before the saMgha to seek expiation. If the pupil misbehaves or is disobedient, the teacher is enjoined to expel him. But if the pupil shows remorse and asks forgiveness, the teacher is to take him again under guidance. A monk ceases to be an Acariya when he goes away, dies, disrobes, changes religion, or expels his pupil. See also ACARYA.
AjAtasatru. (P. AjAtasattu; T. Ma skyes dgra; C. Asheshi wang; J. Ajase o; K. Asase wang 阿闍世王). In Sanskrit, "Enemy While Still Unborn," the son of King BIMBISARA of Magadha and his successor as king. According to the PAli account, when BimbisAra's queen VAIDEHĪ (P. Videhī) was pregnant, she developed an overwhelming urge to drink blood from the king's right knee, a craving that the king's astrologers interpreted to mean that the son would eventually commit patricide and seize the throne. Despite several attempts to abort the fetus, the child was born and was given the name AjAtasatru. While a prince, AjAtasatru became devoted to the monk DEVADATTA, the Buddha's cousin and rival, because of Devadatta's mastery of yogic powers (ṚDDHI). Devadatta plotted to take revenge on the Buddha through manipulating AjAtasatru, whom he convinced to murder his father BimbisAra, a close lay disciple and patron of the Buddha, and seize the throne. AjAtasatru subsequently assisted Devadatta in several attempts on the Buddha's life. AjAtasatru is said to have later grown remorseful over his evil deeds and, on the advice of the physician JĪVAKA, sought the Buddha's forgiveness. The Buddha preached to him on the benefits of renunciation from the SAMANNAPHALASUTTA, and AjAtasatru became a lay disciple. Because he had committed patricide, one of the five most heinous of evil deeds that are said to bring immediate retribution (ANANTARYAKARMAN), AjAtasatru was precluded from attaining any degree of enlightenment during this lifetime and was destined for rebirth in the lohakumbhiya hell. Nevertheless, Sakka (S. sAKRA), the king of the gods, described AjAtasatru as the chief in piety among the Buddha's unenlightened disciples. When the Buddha passed away, AjAtasatru was overcome with grief and, along with other kings, was given a portion of the Buddha's relics (sARĪRA) for veneration. According to the PAli commentaries, AjAtasatru provided the material support for convening the first Buddhist council (see COUNCIL, FIRST) following the Buddha's death. The same sources state that, despite his piety, he will remain in hell for sixty thousand years but later will attain liberation as a solitary buddha (P. paccekabuddha; S. PRATYEKABUDDHA) named Viditavisesa. ¶ MahAyAna scriptures, such as the MAHAPARINIRVAnASuTRA and the GUAN WULIANGSHOU JING ("Contemplation Sutra on the Buddha of Infinite Life"), give a slightly different account of AjAtasatru's story. BimbisAra was concerned that his queen, Vaidehī, had yet to bear him an heir. He consulted a soothsayer, who told him that an aging forest ascetic would eventually be reborn as BimbisAra's son. The king then decided to speed the process along and had the ascetic killed so he would take rebirth in Vaidehī's womb. After the queen had already conceived, however, the soothsayer prophesized that the child she would bear would become the king's enemy. After his birth, the king dropped him from a tall tower, but the child survived the fall, suffering only a broken finger. (In other versions of the story, Vaidehī is so mortified to learn that her unborn son will murder her husband the king that she tried to abort the fetus, but to no avail.) Devadatta later told AjAtasatru the story of his conception and the son then imprisoned his father, intending to starve him to death. But Vaidehī kept the king alive by smuggling food to him, smearing her body with flour-paste and hiding grape juice inside her jewelry. When AjAtasatru learned of her treachery, he drew his sword to murder her, but his vassals dissuaded him. The prince's subsequent guilt about his intended matricide caused his skin break out in oozing abscesses that emitted such a foul odor that no one except his mother was able to approach him and care for him. Despite her loving care, AjAtasatru did not improve and Vaidehī sought the Buddha's counsel. The Buddha was able to cure the prince by teaching him the "NirvAna Sutra," and the prince ultimately became one of the preeminent Buddhist monarchs of India. This version of the story of AjAtasatru was used by Kosawa Heisaku (1897-1968), one of the founding figures of Japanese psychoanalysis, and his successors to posit an "Ajase (AjAtasatru) Complex" that distinguished Eastern cultures from the "Oedipal Complex" described by Sigmund Freud in Western psychoanalysis. As Kosawa interpreted this story, Vaidehī's ambivalence or active antagonism toward her son and AjAtasatru's rancor toward his mother were examples of the pathological relationship that pertains between mother and son in Eastern cultures, in distinction to the competition between father and son that Freud posited in his Oedipal Complex. This pathological relationship can be healed only through the mother's love and forgiveness, which redeem the child and thus reunite them.
Al-Afuw ::: The One who forgives all offences except for ‘duality’ (shirq); the failure to recognize the reality of non-duality prevents the activation of the name al-Afuw.
Al-Gaffar ::: The One who, as requisites of divine power or wisdom, ‘conceals’ the inadequacies of those who recognize their shortcomings and wish to be freed from their consequences. The One who forgives.
Astaghfirullah, tubtu illallah, we na’aytu qalbi an masiwa’llah ::: “Allah forgive me, please cleanse my heart of everything but You.”
Atonement ::: (Heb. kaparah) Atonement or reconciliation between God and humanity is achieved by the process of repentance (teshuvah), seeking forgiveness and making amends with our fellow human beings. (See also Yom Kippur)
Forgiveness. See ATONEMENT; VICARIOUS ATONEMENT
Buddhi (Sanskrit) Buddhi [from the verbal root budh to awaken, enlighten, know] The spiritual soul, the faculty of discriminating, the channel through which streams divine inspiration from the atman to the ego, and therefore that faculty which enables us to discern between good and evil — spiritual conscience. The qualities of the buddhic principle when awakened are higher judgment, instant understanding, discrimination, intuition, love that has no bounds, and consequent universal forgiveness.
clemency ::: n. --> Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.
Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.
condonation ::: n. --> The act of condoning or pardoning.
Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated.
condone ::: v. t. --> To pardon; to forgive.
To pardon; to overlook the offense of; esp., to forgive for a violation of the marriage law; -- said of either the husband or the wife.
Devadatta. (T. Lhas sbyin; C. Tipodaduo; J. Daibadatta; K. Chebadalta 提婆達多). Sanskrit and Pāli proper name for a cousin and rival of the Buddha; he comes to be viewed within the tradition as the embodiment of evil for trying to kill the Buddha and split the SAMGHA (SAMGHABHEDA). Devadatta is said to have been the brother of ĀNANDA, who would later become the Buddha's attendant. According to Pāli sources, when Gotama (GAUTAMA) Buddha returned to Kapalivatthu (KAPILAVASTU) after his enlightenment to preach to his native clan, the Sākiyans (sĀKYA), Devadatta along with ĀNANDA, Bhagu, Kimbila, BHADDIYA-KĀlIGODHĀPUTTA, Anuruddha (ANIRUDDHA), and UPĀLI were converted and took ordination as monks. Devadatta quickly attained mundane supranormal powers (iddhi; S. ṚDDHI) through his practice of meditation, although he never attained any degree of enlightenment. For a period of time, Devadatta was revered in the order. Sāriputta (sĀRIPUTRA) is depicted as praising him, and the Buddha lists him among eleven chief elders. Devadatta, however, always seems to have been of evil disposition and jealous of Gotama; in the final years of the Buddha's ministry, he sought to increase his influence and even usurp leadership of the saMgha. He used his supranormal powers to win over the patronage of Prince Ajātasattu (AJĀTAsATRU), who built for him a monastery at Gayāsīsa (Gayāsīrsa). Emboldened by this success, he approached the Buddha with the suggestion that the Buddha retire and pass the leadership of the saMgha to him, whereupon the Buddha severely rebuked him. It was then that Devadatta conceived a plan to kill the Buddha even while he incited Ajātasattu to murder his father BIMBISĀRA, king of MAGADHA, who was the Buddha's chief patron. At Devadatta's behest, Ajātasattu dispatched sixteen archers to shoot the Buddha along a road, but the Buddha, using his supranormal powers, instead converted the archers. Later, Devadatta hurled a boulder down the slope of Mt. Gijjhakuta (GṚDHRAKutAPARVATA) at the Buddha, which grazed his toe and caused it to bleed. Finally, Devadatta caused the bull elephant NĀLĀGIRI, crazed with toddy, to charge at the Buddha, but the Buddha tamed the elephant with the power of his loving-kindness (P. mettā; S. MAITRĪ). Unsuccessful in his attempts to kill the Buddha, Devadatta then decided to establish a separate order. He approached the Buddha and recommended that five austere practices (DHUTAnGA) be made mandatory for all members of the saMgha: forest dwelling, subsistence only on alms food collected by begging, use of rag robes only, dwelling at the foot of a tree, and vegetarianism. When the Buddha rejected his recommendation, Devadatta gathered around him five hundred newly ordained monks from Vesāli (VAIsĀLĪ) and, performing the fortnightly uposatha (UPOsADHA) ceremony separately at Gayāsīsa, formally seceded from the Buddha's saMgha. When the five hundred Vesāli monks were won back to the fold by Sāriputta (sĀRIPUTRA) and Moggallāna (MAHĀMAUDGALYĀYANA), Devadatta grew sick with rage, coughing up blood, and never recovered. It is said that toward the end of his life, Devadatta felt remorse and decided to journey to see the Buddha to ask him for his forgiveness. However, spilling the blood of a Buddha and causing schism in the saMgha are two of the five "acts that brings immediate retribution" (P. ānantariyakamma; S. ĀNANTARYAKARMAN), viz., rebirth in hell. In addition, Devadatta is said to have beaten to death the nun UTPALAVARnĀ when she rebuked him for attempting to assassinate the Buddha. She was an arhat, and killing an arhat is another of the "acts that bring immediate retribution." When Devadatta was on his way to visit the Buddha (according to some accounts, to repent; according to other accounts, to attempt to kill him one last time by scratching him with poisoned fingernails), the earth opened up and Devadatta fell into AVĪCI hell, where he will remain for one hundred thousand eons. His last utterance was that he had no other refuge than the Buddha, an act that, at the end of his torment in hell, will cause him to be reborn as the paccekabuddha (PRATYEKABUDDHA) Atthissara. In many JĀTAKA stories, the villain or chief antagonist of the BODHISATTVA is often identified as a previous rebirth of Devadatta. In the "Devadatta Chapter" of the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA ("Lotus Sutra"), the Buddha remarks that in a previous life, he had studied with the sage Asita, who was in fact Devadatta, and that Devadatta would eventually become a buddha himself. This statement was used in the Japanese NICHIREN school as proof that even the most evil of persons (see ICCHANTIKA; SAMUCCHINAKUsALAMuLA) still have the capacity to achieve enlightenment. In their accounts of India, both FAXIAN and XUANZANG note the presence of followers of Devadatta who adhered to the austere practices he had recommended to the Buddha.
divinity of his feet will ever again be sighted on the crystal battlements—unless he is forgiven and
drag and drop A common method for manipulating files (and sometimes text) under a {graphical user interface} or {WIMP} environment. The user moves the pointer over an icon representing a file and presses a mouse button. He holds the button down while moving the pointer (dragging the file) to another place, usually a directory viewer or an icon for some {application program}, and then releases the button (dropping the file). The meaning of this action can often be modified by holding certain keys on the keyboard at the same time. Some systems also use this technique for objects other than files, e.g. portions of text in a {word processor}. The biggest problem with drag and drop is does it mean "copy" or "move"? The answer to this question is not intuitively evident, and there is no consensus for which is the right answer. The same vendor even makes it move in some cases and copy in others. Not being sure whether an operation is copy or move will cause you to check very often, perhaps every time if you need to be certain. Mistakes can be costly. People make mistakes all the time with drag and drop. {Human computer interaction} studies show a higher failure rate for such operations, but also a higher "forgiveness rate" (users think "silly me") than failures with commands (users think "stupid machine"). Overall, drag and drop took some 40 times longer to do than single-key commands. [Erik Naggum "erik@naggum.no"] (2007-06-15)
Eneidfaddeu (Welsh) [from enaid soul + maddeu to forgive] The Druidic doctrine that the soul was cleared of its sins by suffering, that suffering was both the result and the forgiveness of wrong thinking and doing; the law of karma.
excusable ::: a. --> That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action.
excuser ::: n. --> One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.
One who excuses or forgives another.
excuse ::: v. t. --> To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit.
To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.
To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.
forgave ::: --> imp. of Forgive. ::: imp. --> of Forgive
forgivable ::: a. --> Capable of being forgiven; pardonable; venial.
forgiveness ::: n. --> The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries.
Disposition to pardon; willingness to forgive.
forgiveness of her sins. The angel raises her up,
forgiven ::: p. p. --> of Forgive
forgiver ::: n. --> One who forgives.
forgive ::: to excuse for a fault or an offense; pardon.
forgive ::: v. t. --> To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven.
To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending.
forgiving ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Forgive ::: a. --> Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper.
Grace Hopper "person" US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), née Grace Brewster Murray. Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the {compiler} with the {A-0} in 1952. She also developed the first commercial {high-level language}, which eventually evolved into {COBOL}. She worked on the {Mark I} computer with Howard Aiken and with {BINAC} in 1949. She is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in {sysadmin} decisions ever since. See also the entries {debug} and {bug}. Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer {USS Hopper (http://hopper.navy.mil/)}, after her. (1999-06-29)
Grace Hopper ::: (person) US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), n�e Grace Brewster Murray.Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the compiler with the A-0 in 1952. She also developed the first commercial high-level language, which eventually evolved into COBOL. She worked on the Mark I computer with Howard Aiken and with BINAC in 1949.She is credited with having coined the term debug, and the adage it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since.See also the entries debug and bug.Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer (1999-06-29)
inexcusableness ::: n. --> The quality of being inexcusable; enormity forgiveness.
Instinct The vegetative, passive, or automatic side of intuition, which expresses itself all through natural existences. The atoms move and sing by instinct, and by the instinctual faculty the animal guides its life. In human beings are the divine instincts of love, forgiveness, and pity. “Instinct, as a divine spark, lurks in the unconscious nerve-centre of the ascidian mollusk, and manifests itself at the first stage of action of its nervous system as what the physiologist terms the reflex action. It exists in the lowest classes of the acephalous animals as well as in those that have distinct heads; it grows and develops according to the law of the double evolution, physically and spiritually; and entering upon its conscious stage of development and progress in the cephalous species already endowed with a sensorium and symmetrically-arranged ganglia, this reflex action, whether men of science term it automatic, as in the lowest species, or instinctive, as in the more complex organisms which act under the guidance of the sensorium and the stimulus originating in distinct sensation, is still one and the same thing. It is the divine instinct in its ceaseless progress of development. This instinct of the animals, which act from the moment of their birth each in the confines prescribed to them by nature, and which know how, save in accident proceeding from a higher instinct than their own, to take care of themselves unerringly — this instinct may, for the sake of exact definition, be termed automatic; but it must have either within the animal which possesses it or without, something’s or some one’s intelligence to guide it” (IU 1:425).
Jesus makes a distinction between God and the Holy Ghost on the one hand, and himself on the other: he is not a god, he is a son of man. “Whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him” (Matthew 12:32; cf Revelation 1:13). In its cosmic mythical sense it is the equivalent of the first Manu of the Hindus, or Fetahil of the Gnostics. In several systems man as a race was regarded as the Third Logos: the monad, having attained the human stage of intellectual and spiritual self-consciousness, racially is the representation of the manifest or Third Logos on this earth (SD 2:25).
Kātiyānī. (T. Kā ti bu mo). Sanskrit and Pāli proper name of a lay disciple of the Buddha, who is declared in Pāli sources to be foremost among laywomen in unswerving trust. According to Pāli sources, she was a resident of the city of Kururaghara and a devoted friend of the laywoman KĀLĪ KURURAGHARIKĀ. Kālī was a stream-enterer (SROTAĀPANNA) whose son, SOnA-KOtIKAnnA, was an arahant (S. ARHAT) renowned for his eloquence. One day, Kātiyānī accompanied Kālī to hear Sona preach to his mother. While the two women listened to the sermon, thieves broke into Kātiyānī's house, and when a servant girl, who had been sent back to fetch oil for lamps, returned and reported the theft, Kātiyānī refused to leave until the sermon was finished. At the end of the sermon, she became a streamenterer. She became renowned for her resoluteness in listening to the dhamma (DHARMA), an honor she had resolved to attain in a previous life during the time of Padumuttara Buddha. The chief of the thieves witnessed all that had transpired and was so moved at Kātiyānī's faith that he ordered that all of her property be returned. The thieves then begged Kātiyānī to forgive them for their wrongdoing. She forgave them and brought them to Sona-Kotikanna who, seeing their underlying virtue, ordained them. All of the former thieves in turn became arahants as well.
kiss ::: v. t. --> To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc.
To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly. ::: v. i. --> To make or give salutation with the lips in token of love, respect, etc.; as, kiss and make friends.
Kshama: Forgiveness.
kshama. ::: forgiveness; patience; forbearance; functioning in the now
Nāgasena. (T. Klu sde; C. Naxian biqiu/Naqiexina; J. Nasen biku/Nagasaina; K. Nason pigu/Nagasona 那先比丘/那伽犀那). The Sanskrit and Pāli name for an eminent ARHAT celebrated in the Pāli MILINDAPANHA and the Sanskrit Nāgasenabhiksusutra (which may derive from a Bactrian SARVĀSTIVĀDA textual lineage) for his discussions on Buddhist doctrine with the Bactrian Greek king Menander (P. Milinda). Although Nāgasena was not born into a Buddhist family, he was destined to come to the aid of the Buddha's religion in fulfillment of a promise he had made in his previous existence as a divinity in the TRĀYASTRIMsA heaven. Thus, according to the Pāli account, he was born into a brāhmana family in the Himalayas and became well versed in the Vedas at an early age. King Milinda was harassing the Buddhist order by skillfully disputing points of doctrine and defeating Buddhist representatives in debate. To counter this threat, the elder Assagutta summoned the monk Rohana, and charged him with the task of converting Nāgasena, convincing him to join the order and training him so that he might vanquish King Milinda and convert him to Buddhism. Rohana visited Nāgasena's house for seven years and ten months before receiving so much as a greeting from his proud brāhmana father. Finally, impressed by the monk's demeanor, Nāgasena's father became his patron and invited him daily for his morning meal. After Nāgasena was sufficiently educated in Vedic lore, Rohana engaged him in discussions and convinced him of the veracity of the Buddha's teachings. Nāgasena entered the order under Rohana who, as his preceptor, taught him ABHIDHAMMA (S. ABHIDHARMA). One day, Nāgasena, having inherited his father's pride, questioned the intelligence of his teacher. Rohana, an arhat endowed with the power to read others' minds, rebuked Nāgasena for his arrogance. Nāgasena begged forgiveness, but Rohana would grant it only if Nāgasena defeated King Milinda in debate. Thereafter, Nāgasena was sent to the Vattaniya hermitage to train under Assagutta and while there achieved stream-entry (SROTAĀPANNA). He was then sent to PĀtALIPUTRA to study under the elder Dhammarakkhita, where he attained arhatship. At the appropriate time, Nāgasena, who was then widely renowned for his erudition, was invited to Milinda's kingdom. There, in the Sankheyya hermitage, Nāgasena engaged King Milinda in discussion on various points of doctrine, at the end of which the king took refuge in the three jewels (RATNATRAYA) and became a lay disciple in the Buddha's religion. Scholars are uncertain whether such a dialogue ever took place. There was indeed a famous king named Menander (Milinda in Indian sources) who ruled over a large region that encompassed parts of modern India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan during the middle of the second century BCE. There is, however, no historical evidence of Nāgasena. The text itself was probably composed or compiled around the beginning of the Common Era and marks some of the earliest abhidharma-style exchanges found in the literature. ¶ A different Nāgasena (corresponding to the second of the two Chinese transcriptions in the entry heading) is also traditionally listed as twelfth of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. East Asian sources claim that he resides on Bandubo Mountain with twelve hundred disciples. He is often depicted in paintings as cleaning his ears, earning him the nickname "Ear-Picking Arhat" (Wa'er Luohan). In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction, Nāgasena sits leaning on a rock, with large nose and deep-set eyes, staring ahead in anger. He has a high forehead and a hump on his back. His mouth is open with his tongue exposed. He supports his chin with his fists.
Nandaka. (T. Dga' byed; C. Nantuojia; J. Nandaka; K. Nandaga 難陀迦). In Sanskrit and Pāli, "Pleasing"; an ARHAT declared by the Buddha to be foremost among monk disciples who preach to nuns. According to the Pāli account, Nandaka was born into a rich family of merchants dwelling in Sāvatthi (S. sRĀVASTĪ). He entered the order on the same day that Anāthapindika (S. ANĀTHAPIndADA) donated the JETAVANA grove to the Buddha after hearing him preach. Nandaka practiced meditation and soon attained insight and became an ARHAT. Once, the Buddha requested that he preach to a large gathering of nuns, who had entered the order with Mahāpajāpatī (S. MAHĀPRAJĀPATĪ). He was hesitant when he recognized that they had been his wives in a previous life, when he had been a king. Fearing criticism from his fellows, he sent another monk as his substitute. The Buddha insisted that he preach, however, for he knew that only a sermon by Nandaka could lead the nuns to liberation. On the first day of his discourse, all in attendance became stream-enterers (P. sotāpanna; S. SROTAĀPANNA), and on the second day, five hundred became arhats. It was because of his great skill on this occasion that Nandaka earned a reputation for being preeminent in preaching. In one sermon attributed to him, Nandaka addressed a group of monks gathered in a waiting hall at Jetavana monastery. His voice attracted the Buddha, who listened the entire night from outside, because the door was locked. When he entered the hall the next morning, Nandaka begged forgiveness for having made him wait, but the Buddha only praised Nandaka for the quality of his sermon, stating that it was the duty of all good monks to give such exhortations.
not condoned, excused or forgiven.
not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting; also, not allowing for mistakes, carelessness or weakness.
pardon ::: v. t. --> The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
An official warrant of remission of penalty.
The state of being forgiven.
A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a
pity, compassion, forgiveness; sympathy, understanding; divine mercy.
placable ::: a. --> Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone.
relentless ::: a. --> Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism.
remissible ::: a. --> Capable of being remitted or forgiven.
Selichot ::: (Heb. forgiveness) Reference to the prayers for forgiveness and the special service of penitence held at midnight on the Saturday night before Rosh Hashanah.
Shemoneh Esreh ::: (Heb.eighteen) The main section of Jewish prayers recited in a standing position (see amida) and containing 19 (yes!) "benedictions": praise to (1) God of the fathers/patriarchs, (2) God's power and (3) holiness; prayers for (4) knowledge, (5) repentance, (6) forgiveness, (7) redemption, (8) healing sick persons, (9) agricultural prosperity, (10) ingathering the diaspora, (11) righteous judgment, (12) punishment of the wicked and heretics (birkat haminim, (13) reward of the pious, (14) rebuilding Jerusalem, (15) restoration of the royal house of David, (16) acceptance of prayers, (17) thanks to God, (18) restoration of Temple worship, and (19) peace.
sizable limits, I started weeding out (Heaven forgive me!) what I considered to be the less
Slicha ::: (Heb.) Forgiveness; also used in Israel for "excuse me."
Sonā. (C. Shuna; J. Shuna; K. Suna 輸那). The Sanskrit and Pāli proper name of an eminent nun declared by the Buddha to be foremost among nuns in her capacity for effort. According to the Pāli account, she belonged to a clan from Sāvatthi (S. sRĀVASTĪ) and had ten sons and daughters, whence she acquired the epithet Bahuputtikā, meaning "possessed of many children." Her husband left home to become a mendicant, after which she distributed her estate among her children. Despite her generosity, her children neglected her in her old age, so she entered the nuns' order. She devoted herself to serving the other nuns by performing chores and menial tasks for them and in the evening she devoted herself to study. When the Buddha became aware of her efforts, he magically appeared before her to encourage her striving, whereupon she became an ARHAT. Since the other nuns had been in the habit of finding fault with Sonā despite her services, Sonā was concerned that they would accrue demerit if they continued to do so now that she had attained arhatship. She devised a display of magical power to demonstrate her superior attainment: in the morning when the nuns arrived at the refectory, she supplied them with water heated not with fire but with the supernatural power (ṚDDHI). Recognizing her attainment, the other nuns begged her forgiveness for their previous wrongdoing.
Svāgata. (P. Sāgata; T. Legs 'ongs; C. Shanlai; J. Zenrai; K. Sollae 善來). Sanskrit proper name of an eminent ARHAT elder declared by the Buddha to be foremost among his monk disciples in contemplation of the heat element (tejadhātu); also written in BUDDHIST HYBRID SANSKRIT as Sāgata. According to the Pāli account, Sāgata was the personal attendant of the Buddha when SOnA KOLIVĪSA (S. srona-ViMsatikoti/srona-KotiviMsa) and eighty thousand companions visited RĀJAGṚHA at the request of King BIMBISĀRA. Sāgata appears to have been naturally endowed with supernatural powers (P. iddhi, S. ṚDDHI) and left such an impression on Sona Kolavīsa that he joined the order. At the king's request, Sāgata displayed numerous marvels in the sky and, when asked to show an even greater wonder, he fell at the Buddha's feet and declared him to be his teacher. In the hermitage of the Jatilas in Ambatittha (S. Āmratirtha), Sāgata dwelt in a powerful NĀGA's cave, angering him, yet he was easily able to defeat the creature. When the people of Kosambī (S. KAUsĀMBĪ) heard of this feat, they resolved to honor Svāgata with a feast. The wicked chabbaggīyā (S. sAdVĀRGIKA) monks, jealous of Sāgata's fame, were intent on his undoing, and so recommended to the citizens of Kosambī that they offer him liquor. Sāgata was offered liquor at every house until he fell unconscious and had to be carried back to the Buddha. Although he was laid down properly with his head facing the Buddha, he turned around and lay with his feet towards the Buddha. The Buddha used this occasion to preach about the heedlessness (PRAMĀDA) that arises from intoxication and passed a rule against the use of alcohol and other intoxicants. The next day when Sāgata awoke, he was informed of what had happened and begged the Buddha for forgiveness. After a short while, through diligent practice, he attained insight into the three marks of existence and became an arhat.
Trizna (Bulgarian) [from Slavonic tryzen pang, torment] A festival for the dead held in Bulgaria, Moldavia, and Wallachia on the 7th of May. The principal feature of the feast is the placing of a light on every grave, drenching the grave with wine, and the burning of great quantities of fragrant herbs or incense on the graves. Sometimes the evocation of the departed one is resorted to by means of drops of blood which are pricked from the eldest surviving relative of the deceased. The Bulgarians believe that the seven weeks from the eve of Easter Sunday to Trinity Day is a period when the souls of the deceased descend on earth, to commune with their loved ones or to beg forgiveness of those they have wronged.
upādhyāya. (P. upajjhāya; T. mkhan po; C. heshang; J. osho/wajo/kasho; K. hwasang 和尚). In Sanskrit, a religious instructor or "preceptor." The upādhyāya is first and foremost a monk who confers the lower ordination (see PRAVRAJITA) to new novices (sRĀMAnERA) and higher ordination (UPASAMPADĀ) to monks (BHIKsU). To act as an upādhyāya, a monk must be qualified and competent and be of at least ten years standing in the order since his own higher ordination. The relationship of the preceptor to the disciple is described as being like that of father and son. The preceptor is enjoined to teach the DHARMA and VINAYA to his disciple and, as necessary, to supply him with requisites, such as robes and an alms bowl. He should tend to his disciple if he is ill and discipline him if he commits some wrongdoing. If the disciple should begin to entertain doubts about the religion, the preceptor should try to dispel them. If the disciple should commit a grave offense against the monastic rules and regulations, the preceptor is to prevail upon him to go before the SAMGHA to seek expiation. If the disciple misbehaves or becomes disobedient, the preceptor is enjoined to expel him. But if the disciple shows remorse and asks forgiveness, the preceptor is to take him under guidance again. A monk ceases to be an upādhyāya when he goes away, dies, secedes from the order, changes religion, or expels his disciple. For the East Asian usage of the term, see also HESHANG.
Uttarā-Nandamātā. An eminent laywoman declared by the Buddha to be foremost in the attainment of meditative power. According to Pāli accounts, she was the daughter of Punnaka, a servant of the wealthy man Sumana of Rājagaha (S. RĀGAGṚHA). Uttarā's family was devoted to the Buddha and, on one occasion, while listening to a sermon he was preaching, Uttarā and her parents became stream-enterers (P. sotāpanna; S. SROTAĀPANNA). When Sumana requested that Uttarā be betrothed to his son, he was at first refused on the grounds that his family was not Buddhist. Agreement was reached when Sumana promised that Uttarā would be supplied with sufficient requisites to continue her daily devotions to the Buddha. Her new husband, however, reneged on the agreement and refused to allow her to observe the uposatha (S. UPOsADHA) retreat day because she would have to refrain from intercourse for the night. In order that she could observe the uposatha, Uttarā requested money from her father-in-law so she could hire a courtesan named Sirimā to service her husband. According to legend, there subsequently ensued an incident that led to the enlightenment of the courtesan, her husband, and her father-in-law. It so happened that one day while Uttarā busied herself preparing a magnificent offering for the Buddha and his disciples, her husband was strolling hand in hand with Sirimā. Seeing his wife toiling, he smiled at her foolishness for not using her riches for herself. Uttarā saw her husband and likewise smiled at his foolishness for wasting his life in self-indulgence. Sirimā, misunderstanding their smiles, flew into a jealous rage and threw boiling oil at Uttarā. But through the power of Uttarā's compassion for Sirimā, the oil did not burn her, and, witnessing this miracle, Sirimā understood her mistake and begged forgiveness. Uttarā brought Sirimā to the Buddha, who preached to her, whereupon she became a once-returner (P. sakadāgamī; S. SAKṚDĀGĀMIN). Uttarā's husband and father-in-law, who also heard the sermon, became stream-enterers.
venial ::: a. --> Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression.
Allowed; permitted.
Yama: Sanskrit for moral restraint or self control which is the first prerequisite to the study and practice of Yoga (q.v.); ten rules of conduct (yamas) are listed in the classic text, Hathayo-gapradipika, viz. non-injuring, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence, forgiveness, endurance, compassion, sincerity, sparing diet, and cleanliness.
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1:How shall I forgive others?" ~ ?, #KEYS
2:Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde, #KEYS
3:The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #KEYS
4:To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.~ Lewis B Smedes, #KEYS
5:Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! ~ G.B. Shaw, #KEYS
6:Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.
~ Sri Chinmoy,#KEYS
7:The Master replied, If you never condemned you would never need to forgive." ~ Anthony de Mello, from "One Minute Wisdom,", (1985), #KEYS
8:We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~ Plato,#KEYS
9:Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
10:You can't go to heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now." ~ Mother Angelica, #KEYS
11:Love all, trust none; forgive all, forget none, respect all, worship none. That is the manner of the wise." ~ Inayat Khan, (1882 - 1927) founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914, (London) and teacher of Universal Sufism, Wikipedia., #KEYS
12:The dirt of the mind is washed away if one can think of the Lord and meditate on Him; if one can cry unto Him with repentance, saying, "Lord! forgive me. I will not do wrong in the future." At once the magnet of God draws the needle of the mind. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
13:Remember what the Lord taught when he said, 'Do not judge, that you may not be judged; forgive and you will be forgiven; be merciful and you will receive mercy. For whatever you measure out to other people will be measured out to you also.' ~ Polycarp to the Philippians, #KEYS
14:Moved man's tongue in its wrath looses speech that is hard to be pardoned,
Afterwards stilled we regret, we forgive. If all were resented,
None could live on this earth that is thick with our stumblings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,#KEYS
15:Who will presume that he's living in such a way that he has no need to say to God, Forgive us our debts? Only an arrogant person... not someone who is truly great but someone puffed up with pride, who is justly resisted by the one who pours out his grace and humble. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
16:I too have been into the underworld, like Odysseus, and will often be there again; and I have not only sacrificed just rams to be able to talk with the dead, but my own blood as well. There have been four pairs who did not refuse themselves to me: Epicurus and Montaigne, Goethe and Spinoza, Plato and Rousseau, Pascal and Schopenhauer. With these I had come to terms when I have wandered long alone, and from them will I accept judgment. May the living forgive me if they sometimes appear to me as shades, so pale and ill-humored, so restless and, alas!, so lusting for life. Eternal liveliness is what counts beyond eternal life. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Human All Too Human, "Assorted Opinions and Maxims," §408 (edited)., #KEYS
17:And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Pray then like this:
"Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Matthew, 6:7-14,#KEYS
18:And He will judge and will forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek . . . And when He has done with all of them, then He will summon us. 'You too come forth,' He will say, 'Come forth ye drunkards, come forth, ye weak ones, come forth, ye children of shame!' And we shall all come forth, without shame and shall stand before him. And He will say unto us, 'Ye are swine, made in the Image of the Beast and with his mark; but come ye also!' And the wise ones and those of understanding will say, 'Oh Lord, why dost Thou receive these men?' And He will say, 'This is why I receive them, oh ye wise, this is why I receive them, oh ye of understanding, that not one of them believed himself to be worthy of this.' And He will hold out His hands to us and we shall fall down before him . . . and we shall weep . . . and we shall understand all things! Then we shall understand everything! . . . and all will understand ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #KEYS
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1:Forgive those who have hurt you. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 2:To understand is to forgive. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 3:What have I to forgive and whom? ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 4:Forgive yourself - no one else will. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 5:The more people know, the more they forgive. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 6:I must forgive without noise or fuss. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 7:Let us forget and forgive injuries. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 8:Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 9:To understand everything is to forgive everything. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove 10:Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 11:I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 12:They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 13:Everything is ended if you forgive and forget. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 14:Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 15:For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 16:Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 17:Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 18:The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 19:Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 20:In order to heal oneself, we must learn how to forgive. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 21:Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 22:It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 23:Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 24:Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 25:I am ready to be healed. I am willing to forgive. All is well. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 26:We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 27:Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 28:God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 29:I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 30:Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 31:Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 32:In order to heal oneself, we must learn how to forgive. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 33:To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. ~ quentin-crisp, @wisdomtrove 34:Forgiveness is a gift to myself. I forgive, and I set myself free. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 35:Take the pencil and write under my name, & 36:We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 37:Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 38:The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 39:You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 40:One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 41:We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 42:After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 43:As I forgive, I set myself free and experience the bliss of inner peace. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 44:…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever… ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 45:Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 46:My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them! ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 47:Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 48:And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 49:Forgive yourself for believing that youre anything less than beautiful. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 50:Forgiving makes me feel free and light. I forgive everyone, including myself ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 51:Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 52:The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 53:The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 54:Reason to rule but mercy to forgive: the first is law; the last, prerogative. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 55:God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 56:He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 57:I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 58:Whenever we are ill, we need to search our hearts to see what we need to forgive. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 59:When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 60:Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 61:If I repent now will God forgive me? No, but if God forgives you, you will repent. ~ rabia-basri, @wisdomtrove 62:Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 63:Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 64:Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 65:Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 66:It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 67:The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 68:When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 69:Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 70:Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 71:Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 72:But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 73:Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 74:Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 75:Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 76:If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 77:We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 78:Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 79:When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 80:I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 81:Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 82:For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 83:If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 84:Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 85:Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace. ~ jonathan-lockwood-huie, @wisdomtrove 86:When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 87:You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 88:Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 89:One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 90:Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 91:Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 92:To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 93:FORGIVE The People That Hurt You. God Will Pay You Back With Double The Joy... Double The Victory. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 94:God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 95:People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 96:We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 97:If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more? ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 98:If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 99:It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 100:‚ÄúI can forgive, but I cannot forget,‚Äù is only another way of saying, ‚ÄúI will not forgive.‚Äù ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 101:My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 102:The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace by Jack Kornfield and Forgive for Good by Fred Luskin.) ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 103:Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 104:Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 105:I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 106:Your fellowship with God flows freely when you're willing to forgive, but it gets blocked by unforgiveness. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 107:Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 108:Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 109:Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 110:Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 111:It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 112:Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 113:Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 114:Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 115:Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?" ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 116:Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 117:Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 118:Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 119:I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 120:Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 121:When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove 122:Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 123:Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 124:Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 125:We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 126:Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 127:Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 128:The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 129:We do not have to know how to forgive. All we have to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the how. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 130:May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 131:Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 132:Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 133:Forgiveness is a great healer. You can literally forgive your way to health. You can forgive your way to happiness. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 134:If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 135:When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 136:Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 137:I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 138:I am now willing to forgive myself . . . for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 139:In the blink of an eye everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may not have that chance again. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 140:The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 141:Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 142:Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 143:The words & 144:I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 145:We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 146:Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 147:Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 148:You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 149:We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 150:You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 151:Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 152:I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 153:When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 154:A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her... but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 155:Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 156:Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 157:We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 158:When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 159:You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 160:You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 161:If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 162:Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 163:An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 164:Sometimes it is hard not to say, & 165:When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 166:Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 167:One of the greatest struggles of the healing process is to forgive both yourself and others and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 168:To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 169:When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 170:The [stock] market,like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 171:Toleration is the prerogative of humanity; we are all full of weaknesses and mistakes; let us reciprocally forgive ourselves. It is the first law of nature. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 172:Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 173:One of the greatest struggles of the healing process is to forgive both yourself and others and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 174:Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 175:As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 176:Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 177:We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 178:When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. We’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 179:Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 180:Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.) ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 181:If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 182:If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 183:Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 184:Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 185:By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 186:You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and & 187:The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 188:For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 189:To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 190:When you tame and domesticate the divine it loses its danger and it's power to forgive you, make you happy, or its power to challenge you, and call you towards new growth. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 191:Being nice doesn‚Äôt make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 192:By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 193:A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 194:We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because we love ourselves so much we don’t want to keep paying for the injustice. ~ don-miguel-ruiz, @wisdomtrove 195:You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, & 196:Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 197:For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses neither will your father forgive your trespasses. ~ jesus-christ, @wisdomtrove 198:Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 199:No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 200:Every aspect of you is perfect. There’s nothing to let go, nothing to forgive, nothing to attain. You already are everything you need to be. It can seem so complicated, but it’s not. ~ anita-moorjani, @wisdomtrove 201:Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 202:the most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying… ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 203:Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 204:I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 205:The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 206:The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, & 207:Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 208:Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 209:If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 210:Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 211:Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 212:I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self- acceptance, and love. ~ don-miguel-ruiz, @wisdomtrove 213:It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 214:The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time - a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 215:A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 216:Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. - & 217:If we can forgive what's been done to us... If we can forgive what we've done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 218:Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 219:I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 220:Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 221:As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 222:I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 223:If our perfect Lord is gracious enough to take our worst, and ugliest, our most boring, our least successful, and forgive them, burying them in the depths of the sea, then it's high time we give each other a break. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 224:That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you'll be free. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 225:I have talked quite long enough about my own follies. The thing is to finish the thing as devised and then let it be judged. But forgive me! It is written in my life-blood, such as that is, thick or thin; and I can no other. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 226:We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 227:I see my parents as tiny children who need love. I have compassion for my parents’ childhoods. I now know that I chose them because they were perfect for what I had to learn. I forgive them and set them free, and I set myself free. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 228:Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment —- allow it to be as it is —- then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 229:If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more? Then do so! Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 230:We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 231:Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non- peace is transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 232:Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 233:Silently repeat to yourself: I forgive myself for any ways in which I knowingly or unknowingly caused hurt or harm to any living being or creature. I forgive all who have ever hurt or harmed me. Everything between us is now cleared up. ~ michael-beckwith, @wisdomtrove 234:There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is... ... me. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 235:In the process of self-discovery you will learn to be kind when you could be harsh. You will learn to forgive, mostly yourself. You will learn to be patient because you may have to wait quite a while to become that which you will eventually be. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 236:My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 237:We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 238:Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. To know all is to forgive all. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 239:There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God? ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 240:We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins. It was by propagating that belief and supporting it with fire that she kept up her temporal power. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 241:Affirm: I now willingly release all negative beliefs about myself, my life and all other people. I now forgive myself for thinking I ever did anything wrong. I am now filled with the love and the Power that I am. For this I am so grateful! And so it is! ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 242:A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 243:Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and devoid of compassion. Being spiritual is to have an open mind, understand and forgive, and be friends with everyone. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 244:Just deciding to forgive isn't enough because willpower alone won't work - we need divine strength from God. As He gives us the strength, we need to pray for our enemies and bless them. Praying for those who have hurt us is vital to successfully forgiving them. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 245:This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 246:You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 247:That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton ... . However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 248:We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 249:To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 250:When it comes to our money and work lives, most of us have had our challenges, our valleys. Most of us have a couple of files in our head. One, I name "It was my own damn fault." And the other one I name, "I don't know how I will ever forgive those bastards." ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 251:People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 252:What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 253:The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 254:One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 255:. says, & 256:And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 257:And there, right in the middle of it, I find & 258:I have never targeted Muslims. I have never targeted Jews. I believe that we should declare the fact that God loves you, God's willing to forgive you, God can change you, and Christ and his kingdom is open to anybody who repents and by faith receives him as lord and savior. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 259:Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 260:Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time? ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 261:Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 262:Although you should not erase your responsibility for the past, when you make the past your jailer, you destroy your future. It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself, let the burden go, and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 263:Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 264:We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 265:Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate‚ do you hear me? no man may start‚ the use of physical force against others. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 266:Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 267:Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts and feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 268:I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. & 269:We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 270:Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 271:Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love?' These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will be many fruits, here in this world and the life to come. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 272:I accepted the forgiveness of God. I got off track as an adult and because I believe in God's grace, I believe that gave me strength then to get that little part of my life realigned, to not play games about it, to confess it, to ask for forgiveness from God and ask others to forgive me as well and then move on. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 273:What heart has not acknowledged the influence of this hour, the sweet and soothing hour of twilight, the hour of love, the hour of adoration, the hour of rest, when we think of those we love only to regret that we have not loved them more dearly, when we remember our enemies only to forgive them. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 274:The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government. If you will forgive me, you know someone has once likened government to a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 275:Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 276:You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do. Let go of hose wrongs they've done to you. Get that bitterness out of your life. That's the only way you're going to truly be free. You will be amazed at what can happen in your life when you release all that poison. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 277:The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior, it's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know how to forgive. All we need to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 278:Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come; and may no foul creature come anigh you! And if the Lady could hear me and give me one wish, I would wish to come back and find you again. Good bye! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 279:In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of - moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 280:But do you remember Gandalf’s words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 281:That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 282:Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs.¶ The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 283:My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, "OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep." That's about it. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 284:There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,& 285:And all of a sudden, all of my sins came before me. Everything I had ever done wrong that I had forgotten about years ago came into my mind. And I prayed, Lord, forgive me, may the blood of Jesus Christ cleanse me from all of my sins... not because of my good works or because of all the things I have tried to do, but because the Lord had forgiven me. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 286:At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and areoplanes to Australasia, we would still have such trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones, and apologise for our tantrums? ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 287:Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don't let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 288:Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. To know all is to forgive all. As Dr. Johnson said: God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days. Why should you and I? ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 289:We should forgive and forget the faults of others. Anger is the enemy of every spiritual aspirant. Anger causes loss of power through every pore of our body. In circumstances when the mind is tempted to get angry, we should control ourselves and resolve firmly, & 290:Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved‚Ķ Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 291:& 292:It is very important that children learn from their fathers and mothers how to love one another- not in the school, not from the teacher, but from you. It is very important that you share with your children the joy of that smile. There will be misunderstandings; every family has its cross, its suffering. Always be the first to forgive with a smile. Be cheerful, be happy. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 293:You must learn to forgive yourself as easily as you forgive others. And then take a further step and use all that energy that you used in condemning yourself for improving yourself. After that I really started to get somewhere - because there's only one person you can change and that's yourself. After you have changed yourself, you might be able to inspire others to look for change. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 294:I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 295:When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‚ÄòDear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 296:In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 297:Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hearts and see if there is any unforgiven hurt - any unforgotten bitterness! It is easy to love those who are far away. It isn't always easy to love those who are right next to us. It is easier to offer food to the hungry than to answer the lonely suffering of someone who lacks love right in one ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 298:Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 299:I am always saddened by the death of a good person. It is from this sadness that a feeling of gratitude emerges. I feel honored to have known them and blessed that their passing serves as a reminder to me that my time on this beautiful earth is limited and that I should seize the opportunity I have to forgive, share, explore, and love. I can think of no greater way to honor the deceased than to live this way. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 300:If you feel "stuck" today, you may want to examine what you're holding on to. Be willing let go of past disappointments by choosing forgiveness. Who hurt you? Who wronged you? Release it to God. Do you need to forgive yourself? Do you need to receive God's forgiveness? Let go of the past so you can overcome disappointments and experience the bright future God has in store for you! There is freedom in forgetting! ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 301:The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 302:When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge... is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 303:People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal the hidden but real Presence of God. They discover that there are people who heal each other's wounds, forgive each other's offenses, share their possessions, foster the spirit of community, celebrate the gifts they have received, and live in constant anticipation of the full manifestation of God's Glory. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 304:When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge... is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 305:Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people that did you wrong the day before. Forgive your spouse for what they said. At the start of the day, let go of the disappointments, the set backs from yesterday. Start every morning fresh and new. God did not create you to carry around all that baggage. Let it go and move forward in the life of blessing He has in store for you! ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 306:The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility‚îÄ‚îÄof being unable to undo what one has done‚îÄ‚îÄis the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 307:You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 308:…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 309:Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What’s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is! ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 310:Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and raving, trying to get back at the friend, one wound leads to another. But when the child can experience the consoling embrace of a parent, she or he can live through the pain, return to the friend, forgive, and build up a new relationship. Be gentle with yourself, and let your heart be your loving parent as you live your wounds through. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 311:Forgiveness is not a moral issue. It is an energy dynamic... Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience. When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you. When you choose not to forgive, it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome sunglasses that distort everything, and it is you who are forced every day to look at life through those contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 312:To forgive another from the heart is an act of liberation. We set that person free from the negative bonds that exist between us. As long as we do not forgive we pull them with us, or worse, as a heavy load. The great temptation is to cling in anger to our enemies & then define ourselves as being offended & wounded by them. Forgiveness, therefore, liberates not only the other but also ourselves. It is the way to the freedom of the children of God. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 313:Let us meditate until we perceive the Infinite Christ reigning in our own hearts. Let us learn to love those who love us not; and to forgive those who do ill against us. Let us break all our mental boundaries of color, creed, and nationality, and receive all - even our inanimate and animal brothers - in the endless, all embracing arms of our Christ Consciousness. This will be a true and fitting celebration of the coming of Jesus Christ to this earth. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 314:No, I can't admit it. Brother,' said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, & 315:The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 316:Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow... those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds& 317:When an injustice happens, we want to be vindicated. People feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong. If we're honest, we'll admit that we usually want the person who hurt us to pay for what they did. We can't get past this until we get the revelation that only God can pay us back. He is our Vindicator - He will heal and restore us if we will trust Him and forgive our enemies as He has told us to do. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 318:... here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.) ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 319:Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 320:Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 321:Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick house and there was no rhyme or reason in it), he saw a long procession, deformed in body, warped in mind, some with illness of the flesh, weak hearts or weak lungs, and some with illness of the spirit, languor of will, or craving for liquor. At that moment he felt a holy compassion for them all. ¶The words of the dying God crossed his memory: Forgive them, for they know not what they do. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 322:If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 323:Life is like a garden. Quite naturally, leaves wither and flowers fade. Only if we clear the decay of the past then and there can we really enjoy the beauty of the new leaves and flowers. Likewise, we must clear the murkiness of the past bad experiences from our minds. Life is remembrance in forgetfulness. Forgive what ought to be forgiven; forget what ought to be forgotten. Let us embrace life with renewed vigor. We should be able to face every moment of life with renewed expectation, like a freshly blossomed flower. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 324:I believe that the most urgent need of parents today is to instill in our children a moral vision: what does it mean to be a good person, an excellent neighbor, a compassionate heart? What does it mean to say that God exits, that He loves us and He cares for us? What does it mean to love and forgive each other? Parents and caregivers of children must play a primary role in returning our society to a healthy sense of the sacred. We must commit to feeding our children’s souls in the same way we commit to feeding their bodies. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 325:To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son - how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, ‚ÄúForgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.‚Äù We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God‚Äôs mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 326:Dear God, Please teach me to forgive myself and others. Remove the walls that keep love out, behind which I am a prisoner. Heal my guilt and remove my anger, that I might be reborn. Make gentle my heart and strong my spirit and show me how to love. Please show me how to honor myself. Please teach me how to listen to myself. "Please program my mind to know itself, that I might at last be free. Teach me to appreciate your spirit that lives within me. Show me how to be good to myself, that I might know more fully the goodness of life. Amen ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 327:I'm working on forgiving myself for some not-so-hot choices I've made in my life. I neglected two people I loved dearly. They are both dead now and I obviously can do nothing to repair or change that, and I grieve every day for those choices. That grief can be paralyzing, but it has made me understand the pain of holding on to unfinished business. In my case, I had put work first. I will never do that again. Having made that choice, I find the grief in my heart finally abating. Now I teach the need to forgive yourself and others relentlessly. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 328:I'm working on forgiving myself for some not-so-hot choices I've made in my life. I neglected two people I loved dearly. They are both dead now and I obviously can do nothing to repair or change that, and I grieve every day for those choices. That grief can be paralyzing, but it has made me understand the pain of holding on to unfinished business. In my case, I had put work first. I will never do that again. Having made that choice, I find the grief in my heart finally abating. Now I teach the need to forgive yourself and others relentlessly. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 329:It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw satan's fire. The people of the world will not much care what we believe and they will stare vacantly at our religious forms, but there is one thing they will never forgive us-the presence of God's Spirit in our hearts. They may not know the cause of that strange feeling of antagonism which rises within them, but it will be nonetheless real and dangerous. satan will never cease to make war on the Man-child, and the soul in which dwells the Spirit of Christ will continue to be the target for his attacks. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 330:Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 331:I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 332:Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that which you refuse to know, is an account of infamy growing in your soul. Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not forgive or accept any break of morality. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 333:The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ - all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself - that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness - that I myself am the enemy who must be loved - what then? As a rule, the Christian's attitude is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us "Raca," and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Please forgive me. ~ Tressa Messenger, #NFDB
2:Love. gIve. serVe. forgivE. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
3:Forgive, but don't forget ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
4:Never forgive, never forget. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
5:Do you forgive me, beautiful? ~ Aria Cole, #NFDB
6:Forgive yourself. ~ Elisabeth K bler Ross, #NFDB
7:I can forgive, I just can't forget. ~ DMX, #NFDB
8:Love can heal. And forgive. ~ Donna Grant, #NFDB
9:People can forgive each other. ~ Jo Brand, #NFDB
10:To know all is to forgive all. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
11:When you forgive, you love. ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
12:We must forgive our enemies. ~ Robert E Lee, #NFDB
13:All you have to do is forgive. ~ Kate Jacobs, #NFDB
14:Forgive as the Lord forgave you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
15:Forgive but never forget........ ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
16:The weak can never forgive. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
17:To understand is to forgive. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
18:we forgive those who trespass ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
19:Women can't forgive failure. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
20:Life doesn't forgive weakness. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
21:Perdonare
"Forgive Yourself) ~ Mitch Albom,#NFDB
22:We forgive but not forgotten ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
23:I don't forgive. I'm a Taurus. ~ Lily Anderson, #NFDB
24:Life does not forgive weakness. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB
25:To err is human: to forgive, divine. ~ Various, #NFDB
26:To understand is to forgive... ~ Emmuska Orczy, #NFDB
27:Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, ~ Rumi, #NFDB
28:Forgive me if I’m surprised. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
29:God forgive you, but I never can. ~ Elizabeth I, #NFDB
30:To understand is to forgive. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
31:To err is human, to forgive is divine. ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
32:What have I to forgive and whom? ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
33:Mothers can forgive anything! ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
34:The noblest revenge is to forgive ~ Thomas Fuller, #NFDB
35:To forgive does not mean to forget. ~ Allan Lokos, #NFDB
36:Forgive everybody but yourself. ~ Holbrook Jackson, #NFDB
37:Good to forgive, Best to forget. ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
38:Hyacinth. Please forgive me. ~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh, #NFDB
39:I wanted to learn how to forgive ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
40:LOVE HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE FORGIVE ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
41:…men never forgive like women. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
42:To forgive does not mean to condone. ~ Allan Lokos, #NFDB
43:To understand everything is to forgive. ~ Lisa See, #NFDB
44:And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors, #NFDB
45:Be safe, Beckett. And forgive me. ~ Debra Anastasia, #NFDB
46:Forgive yourself - no one else will. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
47:God will forgive me. It's his job. ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
48:If I repent now will God forgive me? ~ Rabia Basri, #NFDB
49:Love happens when people forgive. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
50:To understand all is to forgive all. ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB
51:We are required to forgive everyone. ~ Bree Despain, #NFDB
52:Forgive them if you need to, ~ Elisabeth K bler Ross, #NFDB
53:How do you forgive the stupid bastard? ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
54:Life's too short not to forgive. ~ Miranda Kenneally, #NFDB
55:To err is human; to forgive, divine ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
56:To forgive is to set someone free. ~ Suzanne Selfors, #NFDB
57:Are you ever going to let me forgive you? ~ Erin Watt, #NFDB
58:Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
59:Help, love, forgive, and create beauty. ~ Misty Upham, #NFDB
60:The brave only know how to forgive. ~ Laurence Sterne, #NFDB
61:To err is human, to forgive, divine. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
62:To err is human; to forgive, divine. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
63:To forgive others is to be good to yourself. ~ Buddha, #NFDB
64:Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up. ~ Charles Olson, #NFDB
65:Forgive me, I'm a relentless bastard. ~ Peter Benchley, #NFDB
66:Forgive that you may be forgiven. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
67:Forgive yourself, but don't forget ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
68:I can always forgive where I understand. ~ Jude Morgan, #NFDB
69:I never forgive, but I always forget. ~ Arthur Balfour, #NFDB
70:I remember everything but forgive anyway. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
71:Do not forget the past; forgive the past. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
72:Forgive because it makes you feel good. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
73:Forgive him- he knows not what he does. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
74:Forgive others so that you may be forgiven. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
75:Forgive your enemies, but first get even. ~ Lester Cole, #NFDB
76:In order to forgive, you must have blamed. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
77:Learn to forgive yourself and move on. ~ Helene D Gayle, #NFDB
78:Let's forgive the Nazi war criminals. ~ George H W Bush, #NFDB
79:One must always forgive another's passion. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
80:Pray you now, forget and forgive. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
81:To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary. ~ Lights, #NFDB
82:To forgive is not just to be altruistic. ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
83:To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. ~ Joyce Cary, #NFDB
84:We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth ~ John Green, #NFDB
85:You can't forgive your sin. Only God can. ~ Johnny Hunt, #NFDB
86:Family members must forgive one another. ~ Laura Lippman, #NFDB
87:Forgive yourself for not being at peace. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
88:The more people know, the more they forgive. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
89:The public seldom forgive twice. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater, #NFDB
90:To love is human, it is also human to forgive. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
91:You're damned if you can't forgive, Jude. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB
92:Forgive me for both my coming and going ~ Ruth Emmie Lang, #NFDB
93:Forgive those who have made you suffer. ~ Henri Charri re, #NFDB
94:I must forgive without noise or fuss. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
95:Let us forget and forgive injuries. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
96:Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight! ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
97:They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
98:We have to forgive to survive the labyrinth. ~ John Green, #NFDB
99:Words don't come easily, like forgive me. ~ Tracy Chapman, #NFDB
100:You'll betray me then I'll forgive you again. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
101:But I don't forget and I don't forgive. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
102:Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes. ~ Mario Puzo, #NFDB
103:I never forgive. I like revenge too much. ~ Sheila Turnage, #NFDB
104:One that society can't forgive, but I can. ~ Dennis Lehane, #NFDB
105:"To forgive others is to be good to yourself." ~ Cheng Yen, #NFDB
106:To rest. Not to wakeup. Forgive me, Mimmi. ~ Stieg Larsson, #NFDB
107:[To understand all is to forgive all]. Think ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
108:We had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth ~ John Green, #NFDB
109:A child had no choice but to forgive. ~ J Courtney Sullivan, #NFDB
110:Forgive everybody everything everyday. ~ John Foster Dulles, #NFDB
111:Forgive me, Father, but I'm not Catholic. ~ Lani Diane Rich, #NFDB
112:Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
113:Forgive thyself little, and others much. ~ Leighton Meester, #NFDB
114:Gawd might forgive but people never will. ~ Alice Childress, #NFDB
115:I forgive myself...today I forgive myself ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB
116:I’ll never forgive. I’ll never forget. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
117:To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. ~ Franklin P Adams, #NFDB
118:We had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. ~ John Green, #NFDB
119:Forgive them even if they are not sorry ~ Julian Casablancas, #NFDB
120:Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do! ~ Karl Kraus, #NFDB
121:Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
122:Say you forgive me. Say you’ll take me back. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
123:Those who easily forgive invite offenses. ~ Pierre Corneille, #NFDB
124:We need a national Forgive the Ignorant Day, ~ Patricia Rice, #NFDB
125:Father forgive me for I have sinned. -Damian ~ Peter J Tomasi, #NFDB
126:father when I was a boy you left us now I forgive you ~ Ikkyu, #NFDB
127:I have died so little today, friend, forgive me. ~ Thomas Lux, #NFDB
128:I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
129:Our sins are never too great for God to forgive. ~ Tim Kimmel, #NFDB
130:Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
131:Some betrayals ran too deep to ever forgive. ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB
132:They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
133:We forgive so long as we love. ~ Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
134:You must forgive in order to understand. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
135:Forgive, as you hope to be forgiven. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
136:Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves. ~ Jean Seberg, #NFDB
137:Forgive yourself and forgive others around you. ~ Raven Symone, #NFDB
138:Learn how to forgive others, including yourself. ~ Silas House, #NFDB
139:Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
140:Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. ~ Robert Doisneau, #NFDB
141:One can forgive but one should never forget. ~ Marjane Satrapi, #NFDB
142:Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
143:This foolish smile he could not forgive himself. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
144:To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
145:We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
146:When women love, they forgive everything... ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
147:Women do not forget. Women do not forgive. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
148:You give away your power when you don't forgive. ~ Tyler Perry, #NFDB
149:Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
150:Forgive me, Father, but I'm still screwed up. ~ Lani Diane Rich, #NFDB
151:How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
152:I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
153:If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
154:Pass on by us and forgive us our happiness ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
155:We will never forgive and we will never forget, ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
156:We will never forgive and we will never forget. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
157:You can forgive the automotive industry veterans ~ Ashlee Vance, #NFDB
158:And - God forgive me - I believe I am happy. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
159:Forgive me, God, for I'm about to sin like fuck. ~ Clarissa Wild, #NFDB
160:God does not forgive the sins He makes us commit. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
161:God help us. God forgive us. We live on. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
162:Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? -Eriond ~ David Eddings, #NFDB
163:Lord, forgive the times I tried to read your mind. ~ Keith Green, #NFDB
164:Peace always comes to those who choose to forgive ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
165:Be kind to everyone; forgive everyone everything. ~ Dharma Mittra, #NFDB
166:Even if I could forgive him, how would I forget? ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
167:I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really. ~ Tory Burch, #NFDB
168:It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it. ~ Stephen Leacock, #NFDB
169:Love. Forgive. As you forgive, you will be forgiven. ~ Davis Bunn, #NFDB
170:She didn’t forgive and forget, she just forgave. ~ Robert J Crane, #NFDB
171:The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin. ~ Rick Joyner, #NFDB
172:We almost always forgive those we understand. ~ Mikhail Lermontov, #NFDB
173:When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. ~ Princess Diana, #NFDB
174:You cannot forget the past but you can forgive it. ~ Raila Odinga, #NFDB
175:You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you. ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
176:As long as we love, we can forgive. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
177:Everything is ended if you forgive and forget. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
178:Father forgive us, for we do not what we know. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
179:Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
180:If you love a person, you can forgive anything. ~ Herbert Marshall, #NFDB
181:It was unforgiveable,” I said. “But I forgive you. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
182:To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar. ~ P T Barnum, #NFDB
183:"To understand everything is to forgive everything." ~ Zen proverb, #NFDB
184:We chain ourselves to those we don't forgive. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
185:We forgive just so long as we love. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
186:We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons. ~ Golda Meir, #NFDB
187:For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
188:Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people. ~ Jane Espenson, #NFDB
189:Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
190:Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
191:I forgive everyone and ask forgiveness of everyone ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
192:Forgive me for not being able to be with you. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
193:Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate?
-Eriond ~ David Eddings,#NFDB
194:Men, forgive Him, for He knows not what He has done. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
195:Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
196:Our capacity to forgive is our superpower." pg. 172 ~ Mirabai Starr, #NFDB
197:Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. ~ Sarah Sundin, #NFDB
198:They will never forgive us for this Somewhere Else. ~ H l ne Cixous, #NFDB
199:To forgive your mother opens and heals your heart. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
200:To understand everything is to forgive everything. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
201:We are chained to that which we do not forgive ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
202:we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us. ~ P D James, #NFDB
203:When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves. ~ Edward Hallowell, #NFDB
204:and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. ~ John Green, #NFDB
205:Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
206:God may forgive you if He chooses, but not I. Au revoir. ~ Lee Smith, #NFDB
207:If you can't forgive yourself, how can you expect me to? ~ E C Myers, #NFDB
208:I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
209:No matter what, “I forgive everyone for everything! ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
210:Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is ourselves. ~ Brenda Novak, #NFDB
211:Tell him everything; it is best. He will forgive you. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
212:To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
213:to forgive is the first step toward redeeming the sin. ~ Glenn Meade, #NFDB
214:Whether you CAN forgive and whether you SHOULD trust. ~ Emily Giffin, #NFDB
215:Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
216:Father, forgive them; they don't know what they're doing! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
217:Forgive me if I am wary of your goodwill, Your Grace. ~ Sarah MacLean, #NFDB
218:Forgive. Often. You were never meant to be shackled. ~ Andrena Sawyer, #NFDB
219:Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
220:Forgive your enemy, but remember the bastard’s name. ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
221:For one who had afición he could forgive anything. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
222:How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget? ~ Jonathan Nolan, #NFDB
223:If you have a fault it is you do not forgive easy! ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
224:I will remember and recover,
not forgive and forget. ~ J K Rowling,#NFDB
225:Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB
226:People can forgive anything except being proved wrong. ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB
227:There is no goddess to forgive me for what I never did. ~ Julie Berry, #NFDB
228:Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive. ~ John Ford, #NFDB
229:To err is human, but to forgive, well that's right on. ~ Vince Vaughn, #NFDB
230:We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
231:What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
232:When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves. ~ Edward M Hallowell, #NFDB
233:You have to forgive to forget, and forget, to feel again. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
234:Forgive as often as you must and don’t put limits on it. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
235:...forgive your enemies...it messes with their heads. ~ Charles Martin, #NFDB
236:God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive? ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, #NFDB
237:I can never forgive God for having invented the French ~ Peter Ustinov, #NFDB
238:Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.
~ Morrie Schwartz,#NFDB
239:One cannot forgive without truly caring in the first place. ~ K Larsen, #NFDB
240:Pray you now forget, and forgive: I am old and foolish, ~ Jean Hegland, #NFDB
241:Save your anger to fight injustice. Forgive the rest. ~ Allan Stratton, #NFDB
242:Success--something your friends will never forgive you. ~ Julian Tuwim, #NFDB
243:The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
244:Those who occasion loss of dignity are hard to forgive. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
245:To err is human, to forgive is against company policy. ~ Lew Wasserman, #NFDB
246:To understand everything is to forgive everything. ~ Frederick Forsyth, #NFDB
247:We are all of us only human. We can only forgive so much. ~ Ann Leckie, #NFDB
248:What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive. ~ Karleen Koen, #NFDB
249:You can always forgive, you just can't really forget. ~ Brian Littrell, #NFDB
250:You can't forgive if you don't acknowledge the offense. ~ Jenna Brooks, #NFDB
251:Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
252:Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
253:Father, forgive me—for I know precisely what I’m doing. ~ Cherie Priest, #NFDB
254:Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events. ~ Caroline Myss, #NFDB
255:Forgive your enemy, but do not mistake him for a friend. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
256:I can't forgive a woman who is irresponsible and dishonest ~ Lee Taemin, #NFDB
257:If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
258:I love you.” “I’m sorry.” “Please forgive me.” “Thank you. ~ Joe Vitale, #NFDB
259:I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself. ~ Lillian Hellman, #NFDB
260:It takes strength to forgive and love unconditionally. ~ Michelle Madow, #NFDB
261:The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive! ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
262:The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive. ~ Ed Koch, #NFDB
263:To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
264:Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
265:Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
266:As I forgive myself, it becomes easier to forgive others. ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
267:Christians were forgiven and therefore must forgive. ~ Melanie Dickerson, #NFDB
268:I guess because I feel like I can forgive dead people, ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
269:I will never forgive you for what you did in the sanctuary. ~ Terah Edun, #NFDB
270:Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, live truly, forgive quickly. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
271:Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
272:Weak people hold grudges, Mom. Strong people forgive. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
273:We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
274:when someone apologizes, you have to forgive them. ~ Christine Lynxwiler, #NFDB
275:You should never forget. But you should try to forgive. ~ Michelle Madow, #NFDB
276:Always forgive your enemies but never forget their names ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
277:By Christ’s power, we forgive the person we’re angry with. ~ Louie Giglio, #NFDB
278:Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive? ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
279:Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
280:Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.” This ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
281:I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight. ~ Meat Loaf, #NFDB
282:I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life. ~ John Wilmot, #NFDB
283:She had to forgive him. He couldn’t live with anything less. ~ Katie Reus, #NFDB
284:The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
285:The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive ~ John Green, #NFDB
286:The water hears and understands.The ice does not forgive. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
287:To be sorry you hurt me is not enough for me to forgive you. ~ Adi Alsaid, #NFDB
288:You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
289:Don’t forgive people until they understand their mistakes. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
290:Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves. ~ Mike Norton, #NFDB
291:Forgive me for lying. Forgive me for breaking your heart. ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
292:I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
293:If you never condemned you would never need to forgive. ~ Anthony de Mello, #NFDB
294:It is easier to forgive an enemy, than to forgive a friend. ~ Sara Shepard, #NFDB
295:It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
296:Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
297:No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. ~ Jim Morrison, #NFDB
298:No heavenly power will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. ~ Jim Morrison, #NFDB
299:Please forgive me for thinking faith means certainty. ~ Mark Z Danielewski, #NFDB
300:Prof McGonagall : ... bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. ... ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
301:Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
302:The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. ~ John Green, #NFDB
303:The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
304:When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. ~ Diana Princess of Wales, #NFDB
305:Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB
306:Father forgive them, for they know not what they do ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB
307:forgive each one his brother from your hearts their trespasses. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
308:Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. ~ Les Brown, #NFDB
309:God just blesses people who repent, forgive, and believe. ~ Kenneth E Hagin, #NFDB
310:I am ready to be healed. I am willing to forgive. All is well. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
311:If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me. ~ Ted Allen, #NFDB
312:It’s more important to understand people than to forgive them. ~ Donna Leon, #NFDB
313:The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends ~ Margot Asquith, #NFDB
314:To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices? ~ Natsuki Takaya, #NFDB
315:Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
316:We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering] ~ John Green, #NFDB
317:Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much. ~ Georgia Le Carre, #NFDB
318:Being willing to forgive is not the same as being weak. ~ Victoria Alexander, #NFDB
319:Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
320:God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. ~ Alfred Korzybski, #NFDB
321:Good for you. Never forgive. Never forget. That’s my motto. ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
322:I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins! ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
323:I forgive the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead. ~ Sulla, #NFDB
324:Let us forgive each other - only then we would live in peace". ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
325:Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed. ~ Countee Cullen, #NFDB
326:Oh Father, oh Mother, forgive us, for we know not what we do. ~ Edna O Brien, #NFDB
327:We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
328:When people are dead, you can forgive them 'most anything. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
329:When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
330:You learn, you grieve, you forgive, or at least you accept. ~ Alice LaPlante, #NFDB
331:You need to learn to accept your flaws and forgive yourself. ~ Susan Mallery, #NFDB
332:A coward can forgive himself anything given the right excuse, ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
333:Fear can make it hard to forgive, and to trust other people. ~ Josi S Kilpack, #NFDB
334:Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
335:Forgive myself for what, exactly, you bastard internal voice? ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
336:God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
337:I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
338:if I could love him less, then maybe I could forgive him more. ~ Lisa Gardner, #NFDB
339:Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
340:The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
341:The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
342:The Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. Luke 5:24 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
343:The two most beautiful words in any language are : I forgive. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
344:Forgive me that I ignored the sun And that I lived in sorrow. ~ Anna Akhmatova, #NFDB
345:I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
346:I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser. ~ Nikki Sixx, #NFDB
347:If you think you need to forgive anyone....you got it all wrong. ~ Vivian Amis, #NFDB
348:I might fail, but I'd never forgive myself if I didn't try. ~ Chris Guillebeau, #NFDB
349:Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive. ~ Ford Frick, #NFDB
350:No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live. ~ Chris Murphy, #NFDB
351:One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it. ~ Madame de La Fayette, #NFDB
352:The one sin the gods never forgive us is that of being born women. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
353:To err is human," Amelia said, "to forgive, absolutely galling. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
354:To err is human,” Amelia said, “to forgive, absolutely galling. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
355:Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
356:We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job ~ Laura Dave, #NFDB
357:We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
358:When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery? ~ Mark Steyn, #NFDB
359:Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton, #NFDB
360:A perfect family, I think, is one that’s learned how to forgive. ~ Lisa Gardner, #NFDB
361:Everyone has the same hunger, son. We must learn to forgive ~ William Kamkwamba, #NFDB
362:Forgive me my friend, I tried to hold on, but you fell, you fell ~ Damon Galgut, #NFDB
363:Forgiveness is a gift to myself. I forgive, and I set myself free. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
364:If you knew that past was out of reach, maybe you could forgive. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
365:I hope you can someday forgive me.'
'I forgive you now. ~ Richard Paul Evans,#NFDB
366:I’m so sorry. I love you. Please forgive me. Can’t live without you. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
367:Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget. ~ Robert Jordan, #NFDB
368:The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
369:What can we forgive?
Anything.
If that's what we choose. ~ Sarah Crossan,#NFDB
370:you can forgive people but you don’t have to give them second chances ~ R H Sin, #NFDB
371:You you think you need to forgive someone...you got it all wrong. ~ Vivian Amis, #NFDB
372:Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
373:Forgive the cliche, but friends are truly the family you choose. ~ Jen Lancaster, #NFDB
374:Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane. ~ Ilyas Kassam, #NFDB
375:i don`t think they`d ever forgive me for coming back without you. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
376:Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive. ~ Kevin DeYoung, #NFDB
377:We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
378:Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
379:Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately dull. ~ Marya Hornbacher, #NFDB
380:forgive yourself and you’ll get better quicker. We all make mistakes. ~ Susan May, #NFDB
381:Holiness is like frankincense and myrrh to Him. Forgive ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
382:How do you forgive the people who are supposed to protect you? ~ Courtney Summers, #NFDB
383:I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
384:I love you, if you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you. ~ Tamora Pierce, #NFDB
385:In the end, mon cher, all that matters is that you forgive yourself ~ R J Palacio, #NFDB
386:It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive. ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
387:it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends. ~ Mary McCarthy, #NFDB
388:Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one. ~ Billy Corgan, #NFDB
389:one can forgive even what they did. But one can never forget. ~ Frederick Forsyth, #NFDB
390:One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines. ~ Peter Ackroyd, #NFDB
391:People piss you off but its always important to forgive and forget. ~ Bella Hadid, #NFDB
392:We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves. ~ Denis Waitley, #NFDB
393:We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
394:You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
395:And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
396:but as an Indian, I find it far easier to forgive than to forget. ~ Shashi Tharoor, #NFDB
397:Family! So sorry, forgive me. I thought I'd met all the mispocheh! ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
398:Forgive for yourself and for the peace it will bring to your pain. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
399:Forgive me," I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break. ~ Claire North, #NFDB
400:Ghost stories are how we forgive houses for daring to outlive us. ~ Katherine Howe, #NFDB
401:Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves. ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB
402:I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. ~ Gerald Jampolsky, #NFDB
403:I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. ~ Gail Giles, #NFDB
404:Never look back, but never forget. Always forgive, and never regret. ~ K L Grayson, #NFDB
405:One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged. ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
406:People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
407:People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It’s that hard. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
408:The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
409:To err is human,” Amelia said, “to forgive, absolutely galling. But ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
410:Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
411:Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
412:You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
413:I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me! ~ Kendrick Lamar, #NFDB
414:I even forgive you for sitting on my throne. You have saved Olympus! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
415:It is much easier to forgive the stranger than it is one you love. ~ Chanel Cleeton, #NFDB
416:One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
417:One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind; ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
418:One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
419:Please. Forgive me. One more chance, Blaire. I want this. I want you. ~ Abbi Glines, #NFDB
420:We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
421:women have a tremendous capacity to forgive the idiots they love.” My ~ Lauren Rowe, #NFDB
422:After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
423:And in the beast shall an angel of virtuousness flourish. I forgive you. ~ Ker Dukey, #NFDB
424:Appreciate what they can give, forgive them for what they cannot. ~ Elizabeth Isaacs, #NFDB
425:Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
426:Forgive me, Lord, for the smallness and selfishness of my mind. Amen. ~ Michel Faber, #NFDB
427:I could forgive you even your cruelty if it were not for your calm. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
428:She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
429:They'll never forgive me, except they love me, so they will. ~ Maria Dahvana Headley, #NFDB
430:As I forgive, I set myself free and experience the bliss of inner peace. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
431:Bravery doesn’t forgive stupidity. Always think. Think what’s possible. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
432:Forgive an old man his memories,” Pino said. “Some loves never die. ~ Mark T Sullivan, #NFDB
433:Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
434:Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
435:Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. ~ Seamus Heaney, #NFDB
436:If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
437:I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins. ~ Alveda King, #NFDB
438:Mr. Darcy, I could honestly forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
439:…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever… ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
440:the English will forgive a king anything, until he tries to tax them. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB
441:The hardest person to forgive is someone I’ve still to confront: myself. ~ Edith Eger, #NFDB
442:We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human. ~ Frances Hardinge, #NFDB
443:We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore. ~ Francois Truffaut, #NFDB
444:Damn Alex and his resolve. If I died a virgin, I’d never forgive him. ~ Sarah Alderson, #NFDB
445:First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself. ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
446:Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
447:Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
448:God forgive me for being a creep who starves people?” Diana suggested. ~ Michael Grant, #NFDB
449:Jesus didn't just die to forgive you, He rose to live through you. ~ Rich Wilkerson Jr, #NFDB
450:My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them! ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
451:never turn you back on somebody you love, you'll never forgive yourself ~ M K Schiller, #NFDB
452:...the best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
453:To forgive is a gift of God that permits us to let go of our past hurts. ~ Jean Vanier, #NFDB
454:When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released. ~ Reshad Feild, #NFDB
455:When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free. ~ Bernie Siegel, #NFDB
456:Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
457:Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive. ~ William Paul Young, #NFDB
458:Forgiveness is worthless to us emotionally if we can’t forgive ourselves. ~ R T Kendall, #NFDB
459:Forgive us our trespasses,” says Margarethe, “and get out of our way. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
460:If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother Teresa ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
461:It is our own flaws that we are least ready to forgive in others. ~ Jan Philipp Sendker, #NFDB
462:Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button. ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
463:Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. ~ Louis Dudek, #NFDB
464:The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind. ~ Marquis de Sade, #NFDB
465:The love of Christ fills our hearts and makes us always able to forgive! ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
466:The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
467:The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
468:who can but shiver and forgive in the damp theatrical airs of dawn? A ~ M John Harrison, #NFDB
469:You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
470:And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
471:But just as we do not forgive for others, we also do not forgive for God. ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
472:Forgive me. Sometimes an answer can vary with a context, if you follow me ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
473:Forgive yourself for believing that youre anything less than beautiful. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
474:God forgives you your sins."
I say right back, "And I forgive him his. ~ Peter Hedges,#NFDB
475:If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? ~ Dolores Huerta, #NFDB
476:It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
477:More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms. ~ Jose Ramos Horta, #NFDB
478:Mother Teresa said, “If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
479:Okay, I promise. As long as you always apologize, I’ll always forgive you. ~ K L Grayson, #NFDB
480:Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
481:Psalms 25:18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
482:So the person who has been forgiven much has much room to forgive others. ~ Louie Giglio, #NFDB
483:The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
484:Was I a fool to trust, or a wiser person finding the capacity to forgive? ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
485:Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
486:Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
487:Forgive me, it's hard to control myself around such beauties."- Miroku ~ Rumiko Takahashi, #NFDB
488:Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
489:Forgiving makes me feel free and light. I forgive everyone, including myself ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
490:He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
491:I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man. ~ Kenny Loggins, #NFDB
492:If forgive me would make up for everything then we wouldn't need hell! ~ Yoshiki Nakamura, #NFDB
493:I'm home. I hope the Manchester United fans forgive me for being late. ~ Robin van Persie, #NFDB
494:I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you. ~ Elizabeth Lowell, #NFDB
495:I used the knife.
I saved a child.
I won a war.
God forgive me. ~ Jim Butcher,#NFDB
496:Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
497:Love’s power to forgive is stronger than hate’s power to get even. ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher, #NFDB
498:Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
499:People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
500:She had no little vanities, only one big one, and she would never forgive. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
501:The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge. ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB
502:To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
503:To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
504:To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace. ~ J B Priestley, #NFDB
505:We don't forgive because people deserve it, we forgive so we can see again. ~ Jason Upton, #NFDB
506:When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you.. ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
507:When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
508:You can’t put your fist through a man’s wood and expect him to forgive and ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB
509:You'll forgive me if I've grown tired of waiting for humanity to wake up. ~ Oliver Bowden, #NFDB
510:Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
511:Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive. ~ Terrence Malick, #NFDB
512:If you can't forgive, if you can't let go, you have to carry the rock with you. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
513:It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
514:Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
515:Sometimes the person who benefited most when you forgive someone was yourself. ~ Vic James, #NFDB
516:The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
517:The moment you truly forgive, you have reclaimed your power from the mind. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
518:When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB
519:When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you. ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
520:Be quick to repent, quick to forgive, and quick to believe God. Forgive ~ Kenneth E Hagin, #NFDB
521:Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
522:History was a strange thing. It made you forgive when you otherwise might not. ~ K F Breene, #NFDB
523:How far do you have to go before you forgive yourself for how you were born? ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB
524:I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore. ~ Candace Bushnell, #NFDB
525:I'm thinking skywriting. 'Sorry I was an asshat. Please forgive my stupid butt. ~ Erin Watt, #NFDB
526:It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it? ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
527:Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more. ~ Otto von Bismarck, #NFDB
528:Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB
529:people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right, ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
530:Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life. ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
531:The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive. ~ Alyson Noel, #NFDB
532:To forgive is one thing," she said at last. "To forget is nearly impossible. ~ Candice Hern, #NFDB
533:We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
534:You have right to be angry, insult and slap. But later you have to forgive. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
535:You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self. ~ Hugh Laurie, #NFDB
536:Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
537:Do forgive me.... I've no reputation of my own, and I forget they matter. ~ Saundra Mitchell, #NFDB
538:Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God. ~ Jim Elliot, #NFDB
539:God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
540:Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
541:He’s so easy to forgive. No sins at all. Not like my mom. Not like me. ~ Huntley Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
542:I # forgive not because I became a saint, but because I'm tired of hating. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
543:I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. ~ Amy Tan, #NFDB
544:I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
545:People will forgive a penitent enemy before they forgive a professed friend. ~ Tracy Hickman, #NFDB
546:taught me that everyone makes mistakes and it takes a kind heart to forgive. ~ Christy Sloat, #NFDB
547:The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather: Understand one another. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
548:The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive- lookng for alaska ~ John Green, #NFDB
549:The seas did not forgive, and they did not welcome their wayward children home. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
550:To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self. ~ George Sand, #NFDB
551:When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me. ~ Reba McEntire, #NFDB
552:You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
553:A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
554:But it’s a lot harder to forgive someone who’s not looking to apologize. ~ Kimberly McCreight, #NFDB
555:Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can. ~ Neil Young, #NFDB
556:forgive me for feeling so cross and proud towards the unhappy old lady—for ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
557:I can forgive him for what he’s done wrong because that’s the way of life.” That ~ John Glatt, #NFDB
558:I could forgive you anything but taking my memories. You stepped over the line. ~ Donna Grant, #NFDB
559:If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
560:I think there are more people waiting to forgive me than I need to forgive them. ~ Tim McGraw, #NFDB
561:I wasn’t good enough to forgive offenses, but eventually I always forgot them. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
562:Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB
563:there are always people who can't forgive an able man for differing from them. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
564:To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.~ Lewis B Smedes, #NFDB
565:To forgive the terrorists is up to God, but to send them to him is up to me. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
566:We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
567:When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you. ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
568:You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. ~ M L Stedman, #NFDB
569:You owe me nothing, not even your tears. Forgive me, my love, my one and only ~ Faith Andrews, #NFDB
570:118Say [Prophet], ‘Lord, forgive and have mercy: You are the most merciful of all. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
571:Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's. ~ Linda Berdoll, #NFDB
572:Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive, ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
573:God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling... ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
574:I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
575:I'll never forgive you for throwing our life away for a piece of cheap ass. ~ Shayne McClendon, #NFDB
576:I'm gonna fuck up. I'm gonna fuck up a lot, Pidge, but you have to forgive me. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
577:Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. ~ William Congreve, #NFDB
578:Whenever we are ill, we need to search our hearts to see what we need to forgive. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
579:When we see the faults of others, we are to forgive and forbear in humility. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
580:Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive. ~ Henry Home Lord Kames, #NFDB
581:...you became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
582:Accept your losses and forgive your mistakes, then you can embrace a happy future. ~ Lori Wilde, #NFDB
583:A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM. ~ John Bevere, #NFDB
584:Grace came when your capacity to forgive was challenged and you offered it anyway. ~ Holly Hall, #NFDB
585:I know you don’t want to forgive me, but at least allow me to live by your side. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
586:Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
587:O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin. ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB
588:Somehow, I think God will forgive her. If not, eh, Hell has better parties anyway. ~ C T Phipps, #NFDB
589:To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
590:To heal you must forgive your heart, your skin, your body, all of their mistakes. ~ Nikita Gill, #NFDB
591:Be grateful for what he could give you, and forgive him for what he couldn't. ~ Elizabeth Isaacs, #NFDB
592:Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
593:Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
594:Forgive me if I am repeating myself but time travelling will do that to a fellow. ~ Steve Vernon, #NFDB
595:Forgive me not according to my unworthiness, but according to thy loving kindness. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
596:He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
597:I forgive you because you matter. You can wreck me, and I’ll still forgive you. ~ Natalia Jaster, #NFDB
598:If you know you have been forgiven, you will forgive and reconcile with others. ~ Edward T Welch, #NFDB
599:Juliette will never, ever forgive me.
I will lose her.
And it will kill me. ~ Tahereh Mafi,#NFDB
600:My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. ~ Parmy Olson, #NFDB
601:O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station. ~ Saul Bellow, #NFDB
602:Only someone who can say I love you is capable of saying I forgive you.
-Aleph ~ Paulo Coelho,#NFDB
603:Our children, full-grown now, can never forgive us for reproducing. What a mess. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
604:The question that is upon my lips (please forgive me) is the doubt in your heart ~ Jeremy Aldana, #NFDB
605:Unless you forgive, unless you open the wings of your heart you can not move forward. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
606:Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
607:Gratitude- not only for once loving her, but loving her still, enough to forgive... ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
608:I don't know what God intends, or what qualifies Him to forgive me,' Sobran said ~ Elizabeth Knox, #NFDB
609:If you will forgive me for being personal—I do not like your face, M. Ratchett, ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
610:I love you,” he whispered. “If you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you. ~ Tamora Pierce, #NFDB
611:I'm not as good a man as you are. I can't so easily forgive those I have wronged. ~ Sigrid Undset, #NFDB
612:I suppose I needed to share it with her. I suppose I needed someone to forgive me. ~ Daniel Silva, #NFDB
613:Okay, God. I forgive You for
trusting me. I promise to trust You in return. ~ Debra Anastasia,#NFDB
614:people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right,” said ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
615:People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable. ~ James Whistler, #NFDB
616:Ponder said to write down what I wanted and to forgive myself for not having it. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
617:Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. ~ Garrison Keillor, #NFDB
618:the only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
619:The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know. ~ Shawn Colvin, #NFDB
620:To know all is not to forgive all. It is
to despise everybody. —QUENTIN CRISP ~ Elizabeth Bear,#NFDB
621:You are worth loving. They just don’t have any love to give. Forgive them, Margo. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
622:You can’t put your fist through a man’s wood and expect him to forgive and forget. ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB
623:And, though God may still forgive, Be damned on earth while you live! ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
624:Forgive me, dushka, ya lyublyu tebya vsem serdtsem, I love you with all my heart. ~ Jason Matthews, #NFDB
625:Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent ~ William Blake, #NFDB
626:I know you'll forgive my eccentricities, she said, after all we both read poetry. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
627:Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,#NFDB
628:Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you. ~ Bryan Adams, #NFDB
629:Sometimes you have to forgive the process, knowing that the outcome is for the best. ~ Beth Ciotta, #NFDB
630:The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
631:Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
632:To understand is to forgive. That’s not true. Forgiveness has been exaggerated. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
633:Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
634:A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. ~ E W Howe, #NFDB
635:Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;
With them forgive yourself. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
636:Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce. ~ Charles Churchill, Epistle to Hogarth (July 1763) l. 25, #NFDB
637:Forgive. Forgive him and forgive yourself. And come back to the land of the living. ~ Michael Grant, #NFDB
638:Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
639:Good nature and good sense must ever join;
To err is human; to forgive, divine. ~ Alexander Pope,#NFDB
640:How can I stand here forgiven and free of all my past mistakes, and not forgive you? ~ Arlene James, #NFDB
641:If you will forgive me for being personal---I do not like your face, M. Ratchett. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
642:in kings people overlook and forgive behaviour they would not tolerate in others. ~ Raymond E Feist, #NFDB
643:It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
644:I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard. ~ Pep Guardiola, #NFDB
645:Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton, #NFDB
646:Review the past, Learn the lessons, Forgive the self, Forgive others, Dwell in peace. ~ Caris Roane, #NFDB
647:When we touch...our gods lay down their weapons and I can forgive every trespass... ~ Katie Waitman, #NFDB
648:You’ll forgive me for saying so, my dear, but I perceive very little aura around you. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
649:You opened their eyes to another world, darling. They'll never forgive you for that. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB
650:Forget a man’s name and he’ll forgive you. Remember it, and he’ll defend you forever. ~ Pierce Brown, #NFDB
651:Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, #NFDB
652:Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. ~ Robert Frost,#NFDB
653:I beseech you to forgive us, and to make us better than we are. Make us good. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
654:It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB
655:One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged. ~ Heinrich Heine, #NFDB
656:The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
657:We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place. ~ Barry Neil Kaufman, #NFDB
658:When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
659:428.—We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive. ~ Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
660:Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
661:As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. ~ Henry Home Lord Kames, #NFDB
662:Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
663:Dance with her, and she will forgive much. Dance well, and she will forgive anything. ~ Robert Jordan, #NFDB
664:Forgive a wrong done you by your neighbor; Then your sins will be pardoned when you pray. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
665:Forgive me, Nut Jesus, I think I kicked that poor guy in the balls for the third time. ~ Camilla Monk, #NFDB
666:He tried to formulate the words that might make her understand—might make her forgive him. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
667:I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us ~ Jim Bakker, #NFDB
668:I suppose we never know what we have the capacity to forgive until we're truly tested. ~ Elise Broach, #NFDB
669:Please forgive me. I had two poor choices to choose from, neither of which I wanted. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
670:-The Lord says to forgive is devine.
-The Lord didn't go to high school with you. ~ Dakota Cassidy,#NFDB
671:There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. ~ Karl Kraus, #NFDB
672:'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
673:When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
674:BE GRATEFUL, FORGIVE PEOPLE, LOVE MORE, BLAME LESS AND BELIEVE THINGS WILL WORK OUT! ~ Andrew Matthews, #NFDB
675:But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
676:Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
677:Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
678:I've tried so hard to use those two annoying F words; forgive and forget. It never works. ~ Calia Read, #NFDB
679:Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
680:Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully. ~ Joseph Haydn, #NFDB
681:Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget. ~ Maria Edgeworth, #NFDB
682:Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. ~ Garrison Keillor, #NFDB
683:They broke my baby, Lauren, and made their own. I can’t forgive them for that. I can’t, ~ Portia Moore, #NFDB
684:To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. ~ Maximilien Robespierre, #NFDB
685:We may forgive those who bore us, we cannot forgive those whom we bore. ~ Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
686:When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
687:You have to know what people are capable of, and forgive them for whatever they’re not. ~ Elisa Albert, #NFDB
688:10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise. ~ Will Smith, #NFDB
689:But, I still can't totally forgive Dave for blowing my world apart. DO YOU HEAR THAT, DAVE?! ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
690:Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
691:Death is healing, it tells us to forgive, it reminds us that we don’t want to die alone. ~ Lucia Berlin, #NFDB
692:Don't always expect good things to happen. Your job is to forgive no matter what happens. ~ Gary Renard, #NFDB
693:Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other. ~ Judy Collins, #NFDB
694:Forgiveness is NOT forgetness. If you forgive, remember to be wise enough NOT to forget. ~ Widad Akreyi, #NFDB
695:If I catch a single nick on those, I'll spell forgive me on your chest in bullet holes. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
696:I forgive you. And with those words, audibly, the frozen part of your heart crumbles. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
697:I forgive you. I release you. I hold no unforgiveness back. I am free and you are free. ~ Doreen Virtue, #NFDB
698:Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
699:my Greed Toad and Hoarding Hamster would never forgive me for passing up this chance ~ Vasily Mahanenko, #NFDB
700:one must forgive oneself the past or else the journey into the future becomes unbearable. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
701:Please forgive me," Pleasant said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger. ~ Derek Landy, #NFDB
702:please forgive my hands when they can't stop finding you. please forgive my lips. ~ Tyler Knott Gregson, #NFDB
703:Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
704:Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you. ~ Junot Diaz, #NFDB
705:Sometimes all we need to do to forgive our parents is to understand their own childhoods. ~ Karen White, #NFDB
706:There are injuries which nature cannot forgive; she would cease to be nature if she did. ~ Thomas Paine, #NFDB
707:What I created today was a god, but it was not You. Forgive this sin of mine, I pray. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
708:You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
709:Your Royal Grace,
Forgive my boldness. If I might inquire: How old are you?
—Kimber ~ Shana Abe,#NFDB
710:All lonely roads lead back to music. I embrace you. I forgive you. I will never leave you. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
711:Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
712:Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
713:I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free. ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
714:If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself. ~ Bill Hader, #NFDB
715:Men have enslaved each other since they invented gods to forgive them for doing it. ~ Seth Grahame Smith, #NFDB
716:Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. ~ Laurence Sterne, #NFDB
717:Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill. ~ Rae Carson, #NFDB
718:people who do not forgive are hurting themselves much more than they’re hurting others. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
719:Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it. ~ Jim Henson, #NFDB
720:Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
721:To not forgive is to drink a little poison each day and expect the other person to die. ~ Mary Morrissey, #NFDB
722:We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
723:We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore”. ~ Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
724:Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
725:Yea, and as often as my people repent will I forgive them their trespasses against me. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
726:You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
727:After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
728:A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. ~ Sydney J Harris, #NFDB
729:Forgive me if I don't take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina. ~ Brian K Vaughan, #NFDB
730:Forgive me if I have a kind of allergic reaction to all words that hint of nationalism... ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB
731:I'd been preparing myself to apologize. Forgive and forget, as Mom says. "Fuck you," I said. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
732:I forgive everyone. There's no reason to hold anything against someone. Revenge is over with. ~ Jose Aldo, #NFDB
733:If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
734:I have suffered much at the hands of human society. Forgive me if I seem overly suspicious. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB
735:Love hard and forgive mistakes.
Not only other peoples' mistakes, but your own as well. ~ Savi Sharma,#NFDB
736:Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive ~ Rudolfo Anaya, #NFDB
737:Spirit or Source is our true Beloved, who will always accept, forgive, and love us. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
738:The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive. ~ Ozzy Osbourne, #NFDB
739:The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
740:The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
741:We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
742:We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
743:You could forgive a lot if somebody was there to take care of things until you grew up. ~ Jennifer Crusie, #NFDB
744:You should pass us by and forgive us our happiness," said the prince in a low voice. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
745:Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
746:Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB
747:Forgiving, that's what she is, and lonely. A person can forgive a lot if they need the company. ~ Ali Land, #NFDB
748:If I expected to be forgiven myself, I would have to forgive indiscriminately from now on. I ~ Jan Ellison, #NFDB
749:I love you, man. Do you really forgive me?” “If you hug me,” Wes said, “I’ll kill you. ~ Suzanne Brockmann, #NFDB
750:I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
751:It’s harder to forgive someone else your own sins than those uniquely theirs. Much harder. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
752:I’ve grown ridiculously fond of you, and I’m not sure I can ever forgive you for that.” -Rhona ~ G A Aiken, #NFDB
753:Life will forgive mistakes - Life will not forgive indecision ... Do SOMETHING, take a step. ~ Bob Proctor, #NFDB
754:Loved people forgive and encourage, serve and uplift, because they are precious to someone. ~ Jen Hatmaker, #NFDB
755:Luckily for parents, children have great resilience and a generous ability to forgive. ~ Bruce Springsteen, #NFDB
756:Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
757:Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive. ~ Rudolfo Anaya, #NFDB
758:Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves. ~ Rachel Gibson, #NFDB
759:The dead can forgive. The dead can be forgiven. The rest of us have better things to do. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
760:The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
761:we forgive in order to free our own hearts and souls and return ourselves to a state of love. ~ Sue Thoele, #NFDB
762:What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me. ~ Marghanita Laski, #NFDB
763:When we forgive, we free ourselves from the bitter ties that bind us to the one who hurt us. ~ Dave Pelzer, #NFDB
764:When you forgive, the person who insulted you feels humbled in his error and becomes loyal. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
765:When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
766:Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right, ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
767:Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
768:Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal. ~ Don King, #NFDB
769:Forgive. Such a small word. Only seven letters but they carry the weight of the world. ~ A Meredith Walters, #NFDB
770:God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
771:I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
772:No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore. ~ Craig Groeschel, #NFDB
773:The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive. ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
774:When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
775:When you forgive someone who has hurt you,you liberate yourself." page 158 of "Two Weddings. ~ Farin Powell, #NFDB
776:When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you. ~ John Darnielle, #NFDB
777:When you reach out to those you need to forgive, it is you that will be touched and healed. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
778:For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
779:God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature. ~ Julia Ward Howe, #NFDB
780:Here is how to express yourself: forgive, let go, move on, have high self-esteem and BE HAPPY. ~ Marisa Peer, #NFDB
781:I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker. ~ Joshua Oppenheimer, #NFDB
782:If you could make them feel as you can make me feel, then perhaps they could forgive you. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
783:If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi, #NFDB
784:I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing. ~ Katharine Tynan, #NFDB
785:I’m beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves. ~ Shane Kuhn, #NFDB
786:I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong. ~ Aaron Carter, #NFDB
787:Let us learn from Christ how to pray, to forgive, to sow peace, and to be near those in need. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
788:People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it hard to forgive. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
789:Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
790:Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. ~ Jean de la Bruyere, #NFDB
791:We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
792:We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
793:You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again! ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
794:You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do. ~ Melissa Bank, #NFDB
795:You have to know what people are capable of, and forgive them for whatever they’re not. It’ll ~ Elisa Albert, #NFDB
796:a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along. ~ C P Snow, #NFDB
797:Forgiveness is about your peace of mind. When you don't forgive, you are the one who suffers. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
798:I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems. ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB
799:I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. ~ Catherine the Great, #NFDB
800:Love is patient and kind, it is always ready to forgive, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. ~ Wyatt North, #NFDB
801:The criminal we must forgive unto seventy times seven. The crime we must not forgive at all. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
802:Therefore, dark past,
I’m about to do it.
I’m about to forgive you
for everything. ~ Mary Oliver,#NFDB
803:There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities. ~ Jerry Hall, #NFDB
804:To forgive, you have to forget,” he counseled. “Because otherwise you haven’t truly forgiven. ~ Dashka Slater, #NFDB
805:We are only human. Don’t be mad at yourself. Forgive yourself, forget the past and start over. ~ Jos N Harris, #NFDB
806:When you punish a person for dreaming his dream
Don't expect him to thank or forgive you. ~ John Darnielle,#NFDB
807:You can forgive the outer world only if and when you have first forgiven your own inner world. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB
808:You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do. ~ Melissa Bank, #NFDB
809:You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB
810:Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart! ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
811:Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven. ~ Henry B Eyring, #NFDB
812:I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free.” This ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
813:If you get yourself killed, I won’t forgive you.” I gave her a grin. “It’ll piss me off, too. ~ Morgan Blayde, #NFDB
814:In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko, #NFDB
815:Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
816:Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ~ Jules Feiffer, #NFDB
817:Once you finally cease all judgements you will also be freed from the need to forgive. ~ Russell Anthony Gibbs, #NFDB
818:One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
819:She loved him enough to forgive him everything, and he loved her enough to selfishly let her. ~ Sarah Robinson, #NFDB
820:Some say you forgive and forget. Not true. You can't forget but you walk forward in forgiveness. ~ Johnny Hunt, #NFDB
821:The person who is absent is always accused. Neglect is really the easiest thing to not forgive. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB
822:We're a team. It's part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. ~ Jeramey Kraatz, #NFDB
823:And then, your father did something Snape could never forgive.”
“What?”
“He saved his life. ~ J K Rowling,#NFDB
824:Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
825:Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
826:For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God help us. God forgive us. We live on. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
827:He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. GEORGE HERBERT ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
828:“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
829:If man would help some of us a little more, God would forgive us all the sooner perhaps.' But ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
830:If you still accept the idea of regret, it means you can't yet accept nor forgive your past laxity. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
831:If you will forgive me for being personal—I do not like your face, M. Ratchett,’ Poirot said. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
832:It doesn’t matter how great your sins are; God’s grace is big enough to forgive and cleanse them. ~ Frank Viola, #NFDB
833:Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton, #NFDB
834:O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
835:One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
836:Our children begin by loving us; as they grow up they judge us; sometimes they forgive us. ~ Mary Higgins Clark, #NFDB
837:Please forgive your brothers’ transgression and their sin—the wrong they caused you. Genesis 50:17 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
838:To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
839:Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more. ~ Samuel Eto o, #NFDB
840:We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need itwe need it. ~ Bree Despain, #NFDB
841:Almost every estrangement can be mended if one person involved is willing and able to forgive. ~ Eknath Easwaran, #NFDB
842:A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . . ~ George Meredith, #NFDB
843:Be slow to anger and quick to forgive, and you will have friends for as long as you live. ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher, #NFDB
844:How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble? ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, #NFDB
845:If I see a single scratch or nick on those, I’ll spell forgive me on your chest in bullet holes. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
846:If you forgive people their wrongdoing, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well. Matthew 6:14 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
847:I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
848:I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
849:I’m giving you a choice, forgive or die,’ a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
850:The only thing left to do is forgive and forget. I want to forgive you and I want to forget you. ~ Lauren Conrad, #NFDB
851:To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
852:We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it. ~ Eric Micha el Leventhal, #NFDB
853:We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
854:You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?” Myrna ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
855:But then again—if one doesn’t forgive someone, doesn’t one, in a sense, lose that person forever? ~ Laura Lippman, #NFDB
856:Death teaches you that. You would give anything, forgive anything, for just one more second. . . . ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
857:Forgive him. Not because he deserves your forgiveness, but because you have the right to be free.^ ~ Haemin Sunim, #NFDB
858:Give me strength to forgive. Because he who forgives is the greatest. And I know I cannot forget. ~ Me a Selimovi, #NFDB
859:God is the ultimate judge of what is truly in our souls. But we are requiered to forgive everyone. ~ Bree Despain, #NFDB
860:I couldn't imagine what it cost him to say these words. "I do," I said. "And you must forgive me. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
861:I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never. ~ Emiliano Zapata, #NFDB
862:Isn’t it funny? You forgive people before they ask forgiveness. Later they expect your apologize. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
863:I thought that I needed your apology to
move on.
I really needed to forgive myself
first. ~ Najwa Zebian,#NFDB
864:It's very possible and very okay to forgive someone and still not want to spend time with them ~ Karen Salmansohn, #NFDB
865:May the dead forgive me, I can do no other
But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene ~ Sophocles,#NFDB
866:One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me. ~ Salvador Plascencia, #NFDB
867:Sometimes you have to forget and forgive. Forgive them for hurting you and forget that they exist! ~ Jeffree Star, #NFDB
868:The betrayal meant he couldn't trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn't forgive her. ~ James Dashner, #NFDB
869:To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic. ~ Albert Ellis, #NFDB
870:Would do anything for five more minutes. Just five. To hold her hand, to tell her I forgive her. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
871:You're glowing." He chuckled, taming his hair. "Forgive me for being proud instead of embarrassed. ~ Lisa Kessler, #NFDB
872:And also because - Oh, my darling, my darling, forgive me; I’m going to cause you quite a lot of pain. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
873:"Forgive him. Not because he deserves your forgiveness, but because you have the right to be free." ~ Haemin Sunim, #NFDB
874:Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay. ~ David D Burns, #NFDB
875:I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death. ~ Alice Sebold, #NFDB
876:I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess.
- Han Solo ~ Ian Doescher,#NFDB
877:It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
878:The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross. ~ John Bevere, #NFDB
879:Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth. ~ Shauna Singh Baldwin, #NFDB
880:You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
881:If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny. ~ Arthur Golden, #NFDB
882:It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
883:It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should. ~ Odette Annable, #NFDB
884:MAR11.26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
885:Nature will forgive humankind just about anything, and what it won’t forgive I hope never to witness. ~ Paul Doiron, #NFDB
886:Organizations that learn from their failures forgive and remember, they don’t forgive and forget. ~ Robert I Sutton, #NFDB
887:Please, please don't try hurting me, my friends.
I wouldn't forgive myself If I had to kill you all. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
888:Somehow, I cannot forgive her for her neglect of me as a child, when I would have clung to her. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB
889:Sometimes we have to forgive the people we love, even if we're mad as hell. That's just how it is. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
890:the greater the sin you forgive them of, the greater the measure of the Spirit that will come to you. ~ R T Kendall, #NFDB
891:The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein, #NFDB
892:Then life taught me a harder lesson, beloved: it is better to forgive an enemy than destroy him. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
893:To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB
894:We didn't want to be bullies, so we decided to forgive and forget and put an end to our attacks. ~ Kazuki Kaneshiro, #NFDB
895:We don’t forgive people because they deserve it,” she said. “We forgive them because we deserve it. ~ Richard Russo, #NFDB
896:5For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
897:Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive. ~ Emily Giffin, #NFDB
898:But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. MATTHEW 6:15 ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
899:But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for. ~ Chad Harbach, #NFDB
900:Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
901:Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader... ~ Owen Wister, #NFDB
902:I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along. ~ C P Snow, #NFDB
903:People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
904:Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
905:Sometime, it's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
906:The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
907:Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones. ~ Masashi Kishimoto, #NFDB
908:You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
909:You should forgive your enemies and if you haven't any, just forgive a few of your friends. ~ Howard Marion Crawford, #NFDB
910:Forgiveness is the only way to heal. We can choose to forgive because we feel compassion for ourselves. ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
911:However, I'm beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves. ~ Shane Kuhn, #NFDB
912:In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
913:I now see that the hands that forgive, console, heal, and offer a festive meal must become my own. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
914:It was then I locked eyes with my father, his stare begging me to forgive him. To have mercy on him too. ~ M Robinson, #NFDB
915:People who forgive can—and should—also be people who confront. What is not confessed can’t be forgiven. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
916:Second-guessing every step prevents any forward momentum. Trust yourself, forgive yourself, and move on. ~ A G Howard, #NFDB
917:The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you.
Posthumus ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
918:This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
919:We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light ~ Plato, #NFDB
920:We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
921:We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
922:What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
923:Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul’s journeying. ~ Guy Gavriel Kay, #NFDB
924:Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing. ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB
925:Forgive me. I didn’t mean to kill you, Polonius. The blade slipped out of the sheath, and it struck you. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB
926:George Herbert said, “He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. ~ Doug Batchelor, #NFDB
927:I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
928:I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone. ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
929:If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more? ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
930:If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB
931:In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness ~ Bill Moyers, #NFDB
932:Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit. ~ Andrew Matthews, #NFDB
933:I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up…and forgive ~ Jennifer Aniston, #NFDB
934:There’s no coming back from this. I’ll never forgive you for taking me away from her. Never. We’re done. ~ Tillie Cole, #NFDB
935:Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself. ~ Ethan Hawke, #NFDB
936:We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
937:Yes, we have lost track of the light, the mornings, the holy innocence of those who forgive themselves. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
938:You don’t need a reason to forgive,” she says. “If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do. ~ Melissa Bank, #NFDB
939:For You, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive, abundant in faithful love to all who call on You. Psalm 86:5 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
940:God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being. ~ Walter Scott, #NFDB
941:I couldn't forgive him or like him but I saw that what he had done was, to hm, entirely justified. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
942:If you find someone who can forgive all your bullshit... the least you can so is try to forgive them. ~ Brian K Vaughan, #NFDB
943:Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world. ~ Camryn Manheim, #NFDB
944:I recognize that I have chosen wrongly, I forgive this thought, and I choose again. I choose love ~ Gabrielle Bernstein, #NFDB
945:I refuse to forgive anyone because that implies that I'm superior-that I have a right to make a judgement. ~ Gail Giles, #NFDB
946:Loving someone gives them permission to do things to you because they know you'll forgive them. -Shaye ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
947:Lucrezia Borgia couldn't be moved by the sentiment, nor could she forgive the insult. Old woman. Old. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
948:My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
949:Self understanding helps us connect our own weaknesses to the weaknesses of others and forgive them. ~ Richard Holloway, #NFDB
950:The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ~ Thomas Szasz, #NFDB
951:To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. ~ Quentin Crisp, #NFDB
952:We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. ~ Samuel Butler, #NFDB
953:We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~ Plato, #NFDB
954:You can only forgive those that you know, those that you understand. You neither know me nor understand me. ~ Ker Dukey, #NFDB
955:Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive, as we had during the war. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
956:I have forgotten the reason, forgive me. I have forgotten my name in the language I was born to, forgive me. ~ Joy Harjo, #NFDB
957:I recognize that I have chosen wrongly, I forgive this thought, and I choose again. I choose love. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein, #NFDB
958:Is it in my nature to sin or in my desire? If it is in my nature then will you forgive me for existing? ~ Zachary Koukol, #NFDB
959:It’s easy to forgive the summer rain; like first love, white lies or blarney, there’s no malignity in it. ~ Len Deighton, #NFDB
960:It seems like the more you know of their story, the more you kind of forgive them for what they do. ~ Anthony Ray Hinton, #NFDB
961:It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
962:Juvenal, another non-Christian writer of Rome, tells us that “fools seek revenge, philosophers forgive. ~ Lynn Thorndike, #NFDB
963:The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building. ~ John Vianney, #NFDB
964:The moment you decide to forgive and let your negative feelings melt away, you are on the road to freedom. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
965:"To be angry is to let others' mistakes punish yourself. To forgive others is to be good to yourself." ~ Master ChengYen, #NFDB
966:Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
967:We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children. ~ Golda Meir, #NFDB
968:We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it—because we need it. ~ Bree Despain, #NFDB
969:..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'. ~ Helen Fielding, #NFDB
970:When you forgive, somewhere you sacrifice a part of your own existence, your respect, your dignity, yourself. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
971:You need to forgive people you don't understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
972:A man can forgive a woman who leaves whoring for him, but he'll never forgive one who goes whoring for him. ~ Brent Weeks, #NFDB
973:Forgive me for being the stupidest man on the planet?”
“Careful. You’re talking about the man I love. ~ Sarah Mayberry,#NFDB
974:I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
975:I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle. ~ Tom Wolfe, #NFDB
976:I think, Calder, that we have to figure out how to forgive, not for the people who wronged us, but for us. ~ Mia Sheridan, #NFDB
977:Mercy. Had I ever really understood it? Had I actually believed I knew what it was to suffer? To forgive? ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
978:None of us deserve the forgiveness we’ve been given, either by people or by God. I have to forgive you. ~ Carolyne Aarsen, #NFDB
979:That is very true," replied Elizabeth, "and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
980:The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge. ~ Ron Smothermon, #NFDB
981:The Lord's capacity to forgive a person who is truly repentant is without limit, without qualification ~ Elizabeth Camden, #NFDB
982:The penalty for thinking was death. I can never forgive Kim Il-sung for taking away our right to think. ~ Masaji Ishikawa, #NFDB
983:To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat. ~ Joyce Cary, #NFDB
984:We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it. ~ Bree Despain, #NFDB
985:We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. ~ Pierre Corneille, #NFDB
986:Animosity is a weapon, and it’s not used against the person you can’t forgive – it’s used against yourself. ~ Portia Moore, #NFDB
987:Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it. ~ William Feather, #NFDB
988:Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
989:Forgive my brother," Camira apologized. "We don't normally let him out of his cage when guests are present. ~ Brandon Mull, #NFDB
990:If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
991:I have learned that one must forgive oneself the past or else the journey into the future becomes unbearable ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
992:I will forgive them for the wicked things they did, and I will not remember their sins anymore.” Hebrews 8:12 ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
993:Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
994:Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone. ~ Horatio Nelson, #NFDB
995:She swears you can make it stop by forgiving and moving forward. I’m moving forward, but I’ll never forgive. ~ Carrie Ryan, #NFDB
996:There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
997:We need not forgive ourselves," he (Augustus) said. "It has been a marriage. It has been better than most. ~ John Williams, #NFDB
998:Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones. ~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, #NFDB
999:But maybe because sometimes a girl just really needs to snap at someone who she knows will forgive her later. ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
1000:Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
1001:Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right,” said Hermione. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1002:face up to the seriousness – possibly a high-handed wickedness – of what they did; and still to forgive. This ~ R T Kendall, #NFDB
1003:Forgive the pessimism, if not the sonority. But I know how much you demand from a thing, you little bastard. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
1004:God wants us to forgive each other, Rick, and help each other be better people. He never wanted us to judge. ~ Kathryn Shay, #NFDB
1005:(I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.) It ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
1006:I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy. ~ Jonathan Carroll, #NFDB
1007:I have learned that one must forgive oneself the past or else the journey into the future becomes unbearable. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
1008:Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. ~ Marie von Ebner Eschenbach, #NFDB
1009:Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
1010:The dead can forgive. The dead can be forgiven. The rest of us have better things to do. (Monza Murcatto) ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
1011:There's a lot of things it's hard to forgive, but then one day you turn around and you've got no family left. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1012:To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1013:Unimaginably bad shit happens. We are left to choose whether to grow or to wither. To forgive or to fester. ~ Julie Buxbaum, #NFDB
1014:What if we get back and apes or aliens have taken over our planet? If I miss that, I will never forgive you! ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
1015:You need to forgive yourself. The Lord has already wiped the slate clean. Don’t doubt His good judgment. ~ Ruth Logan Herne, #NFDB
1016:But sometimes it’s easier to love someone who has flaws you can forgive in return for their forgiving yours. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
1017:Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1018:Oh, Glenn!--forgive--me! " she faltered. "I was only--talking. What do I know? Oh, I am blind--blind and little! ~ Zane Grey, #NFDB
1019:Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
1020:Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
1021:To forgive is an act of compassion... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it. ~ Joss Whedon, #NFDB
1022:To forgive is to grieve—for what happened, for what didn’t happen—and to give up the need for a different past. ~ Edith Eger, #NFDB
1023:As I get older I've come to realize that the best way to "get even" with someone is to forgive - and then forget. ~ Mark Hart, #NFDB
1024:But I’ve forgiven Hugh, because if I don’t forgive him, there is no hope for forgiveness for someone like me. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
1025:But knowing that these tendencies are in our biological blueprints might help one forgive even a failed mother. ~ Delia Owens, #NFDB
1026:Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night ~ Sarah Kay, #NFDB
1027:He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive. ~ Angela Carter, #NFDB
1028:It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
1029:Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1030:Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB
1031:True friends can find their way to each other through anything, and forgive anythings, even very big mistakes. ~ Cameron Dane, #NFDB
1032:You've never gone too far that God can't redeem you, restore you, forgive you, and give you a second chance. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
1033:A criminal will never forgive you for preventing them from committing the crime that is really in their heart. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
1034:after all, the identity of the one who must forgive is actually founded on the very fact of having been wounded. ~ David Whyte, #NFDB
1035:A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself. ~ Linda Sue Park, #NFDB
1036:A sign in a pottery store in England announced, “Please let us know if you break any item, so we can forgive you. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB
1037:Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
1038:Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night. ~ Sarah Kay, #NFDB
1039:I forgive you." I cleared my throat so the whole camp could hear. "Darren, did you hear me? I. Forgive. You. ~ Rachel E Carter, #NFDB
1040:In my kind world the dead were out of range
And I could not forgive the sad or strange
In beast or man. ~ Richard Wilbur,#NFDB
1041:Letting go of Levi hurt beyond words. But she couldn’t apologize for the lie, and he couldn’t forgive the truth. ~ Jewel E Ann, #NFDB
1042:Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1043:Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1044:We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~ Plato, #NFDB
1045:What in your life allows you to give up to other people, and allows you to forgive others and accept forgiveness. ~ Tim McGraw, #NFDB
1046:A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
1047:Father Gomst will pray for your soul,” I said. “And forgive me the sins I incur in detaching it from your body. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
1048:Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer! ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1049:If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy, God will forgive you but the bureaucracy. ~ Hyman George Rickover, #NFDB
1050:I remember too much. But don't worry, Don Sombra. People like me have an infinite ability to forgive themselves. ~ Nancy Farmer, #NFDB
1051:It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch. " He finally whispered, "We also need to forgive ourselves. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1052:I wish I could simply forgive myself and move on, but then again, if I really wanted to change, why didn’t I? ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1053:Jesus did not eliminate evil; he revealed a God willing, at immense cost, to forgive it and to heal its damage. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
1054:John F. Kennedy is reported to have said that we can forgive our enemies but we shouldn’t forget their names. ~ Debbie Macomber, #NFDB
1055:Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. ~ Sri Chinmoy, #NFDB
1056:MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
1057:Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
1058:Remember that many "negative" people were conditioned by people with smaller minds and hearts, so forgive them. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1059:This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore. ~ Barry Lyga, #NFDB
1060:To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. ~ Robert Muller, #NFDB
1061:To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates. ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
1062:Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
1063:Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry. ~ Edgar Degas, #NFDB
1064:You may have heard the saying, “Refusing to forgive is like drinking poison and hoping it kills the other person. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1065:Dear Lord, I pray for the strength to forgive the past. I pray for the wisdom to guide us through this storm. Amen. ~ D M Pulley, #NFDB
1066:Did you know there are two kinds of people in this world? Those who forgive their parents, and those who don't. ~ Lindsay Hunter, #NFDB
1067:Don’t you think that if God can supposedly forgive you, it’s kind of egotistical for you not to forgive yourself ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1068:Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. —C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY ~ Sheila Walsh, #NFDB
1069:Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?" ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
1070:i forgive myself even if i am the last person i want to forgive. whatever i have come from/wherever i am going. ~ Sabrina Benaim, #NFDB
1071:I'm not a spiteful man, never been. I always forgive. The final decision isn't mine, but God's. God knows what He does. ~ Neymar, #NFDB
1072:My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business" - Rhett Butler ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
1073:The question of how you can hope and expect someone to forgive you when deep down you don’t forgive yourself. ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
1074:Your act of vengeance will achieve nothing but create a spiral of vendetta. Find it in your heart to forgive ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
1075:You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you. ~ Yasmin Mogahed, #NFDB
1076:Do not allow your sad past to rule your present situation. Unlike a tango, it does not take to two to forgive. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
1077:Don’t you think that if God can supposedly forgive you, it’s kind of egotistical for you not to forgive yourself? ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1078:Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1079:I can forgive the evil in a human being, but I cannot pardon the foolishness in him. Stupidity is the greatest sin. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB
1080:I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
1081:If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
1082:If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. ~ Hyman G Rickover, #NFDB
1083:Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul. ~ Choa Kok Sui, #NFDB
1084:Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1085:My Lord is more ready to pardon than you to sin, more able to forgive than you to transgress.” Spurgeon ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1086:Unless you open the wings of your heart. Unless you forgive all. You cannot move. You cannot fly in the land of light. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
1087:We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~ Plato,#NFDB
1088:We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
1089:Why, it almost makes one forgive the rain, does it not - when the sun comes out like this, at the end of it all. ~ Eleanor Catton, #NFDB
1090:All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1091:And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive. ~ Corrie ten Boom, #NFDB
1092:Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1093:Condemning and condoning are two faces in the mirror; but it takes more courage to forgive than to criticize someone. ~ Kavita Kan, #NFDB
1094:Forgive for your sake, if not for theirs. Those who can forgive live healthier, happier, and less stressful lives. ~ Lori Palatnik, #NFDB
1095:Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness but because you deserve peace.” “No, Mummy, he has taken away ~ Ajay K Pandey, #NFDB
1096:If you can find the cause for Oscar’s illness, I’ll forgive the mortgage on Dahlia House. I’ll pay it off myself. ~ Carolyn Haines, #NFDB
1097:If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
1098:It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light. ~ Plato, #NFDB
1099:I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible. ~ Claire Danes, #NFDB
1100:Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.
~ Sri Chinmoy,#NFDB
1101:That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting… ~ John Green, #NFDB
1102:The questions had become: What can we forgive in others? How far do they have to go before we lose faith in them? ~ Hanif Kureishi, #NFDB
1103:though, that when you don’t forgive someone, you let them have power over you and ultimately just hurt yourself. ~ Christy Barritt, #NFDB
1104:To forgive even when the apology tendered was as thin as fishing line and as breakable as a promise to do better. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
1105:Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1106:Wanden olstrum end kendesorum. Isen ne bejstrum.
The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive. ~ Leigh Bardugo,#NFDB
1107:We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life. ~ Curtis Sittenfeld, #NFDB
1108:When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
1109:You have ability and people who don't never forgive you for it. Your very existence is a constant reproach to them. ~ H Beam Piper, #NFDB
1110:Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self. ~ Robert Muller, #NFDB
1111:Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift:
it is so nearly what would please me
I cannot but perfect it ~ Laura Riding Jackson,#NFDB
1112:Forgive me, I’m preaching. I’ve spent so much of my life giving sermons that it’s a habit I find hard to break. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1113:Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1114:Forgive yourself first. Let go of past hurts and direct your spirit to goodness and hope by having gratitude. ~ Janet Taylor Spence, #NFDB
1115:he called out to the open sky, where God could be seen smiling, Men, forgive Him, for He knows not what He has done. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1116:Here are our failures, and here is our greatness; we did not mean to hurt you, and we forgive you for our death. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
1117:If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1118:I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself. ~ Charles Simeon, #NFDB
1119:In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line. ~ Tom Clancy, #NFDB
1120:In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, #NFDB
1121:Not 'Don' in that I-m-sorry-and-now-you'll-forgive-me-like-you-always-do-way. Not this time, Keenan."
(Donya) ~ Melissa Marr,#NFDB
1122:Oh God, forgive me for the hateful thoughts, because I love them, these brutal, disarming bastards, I love them … ~ E R Braithwaite, #NFDB
1123:The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain.
And then, in smaller letters:
Forgive me. ~ Lauren Oliver,#NFDB
1124:They say we are punished not for the sin but by the sin, and I began to feel punished by my unwillingness to forgive. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1125:Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
1126:You forgive yourself for what you've done," Edda told her. "You admit mistakes. You learn from them. And you improve. ~ Sara Raasch, #NFDB
1127:Ask God to make you like Christ so that, even when you are being persecuted, you can pray, “Father, forgive them. ~ Henry T Blackaby, #NFDB
1128:Can you ever forgive me?
I already have.
How could you? I don't deserve it.
That's what makes it love. ~ Richard Paul Evans,#NFDB
1129:Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. —Oscar Wilde ~ Ania Ahlborn, #NFDB
1130:Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1131:Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
1132:God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't. ~ Ava Gardner, #NFDB
1133:... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it. ~ Princess Diana, #NFDB
1134:It doesn't make you weak to forgive someone, you know" he said. "No, but it gives people another chance to hurt you. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
1135:Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; j forgive, and you will be forgiven; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1136:One can easily forgive a child who’s afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light, ~ Lauren Rowe, #NFDB
1137:Our capacity to love and forgive—to accept fallibilities in another and in ourselves—is our greatest strength. ~ Laura Lynne Jackson, #NFDB
1138:suffered, to forgive the one who inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. —MARIANNE WILLIAMSON ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
1139:These are the folks who brought us the hydrogen bomb. Forgive me, Lord, for not being more grateful to these kind souls ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
1140:To err is human; to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope”
Excerpt From: Moriarty, Liane. “The Husband’s Secret. ~ Alexander Pope,#NFDB
1141:We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves. ~ Darren Johnson, #NFDB
1142:We need to forgive - but mindfully. We need compassion that powered by wisdom. That's the way to address our bullies. ~ Mark Coleman, #NFDB
1143:We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake. ~ Marie von Ebner Eschenbach, #NFDB
1144:Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you? ~ Barry Lopez, #NFDB
1145:you expect better performances from attractive people, but when they fail, you are also more likely to forgive them. ~ David McRaney, #NFDB
1146:Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1147:Caught in the moorless place between young adulthood and middle age, we were just learning how to forgive ourselves. ~ Chloe Benjamin, #NFDB
1148:Convincing Lana I forgive her for what she did is the least of it.
I have years of stupid mistakes to make up for. ~ Siobhan Davis,#NFDB
1149:Deep malice makes too deep incision. Forget, forgive, conclude and be agreed.
Richard 11, Act 1, Scene 1 ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1150:Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1151:Forgive me if I'm wrong. But are you-were you-did you come here on a train from New York about ten years ago? ~ Christina Baker Kline, #NFDB
1152:He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive. ~ Richard Yates, #NFDB
1153:I understand why you did what you did. Perhaps a part of me even admires you for it. But I can't forgive you for it. ~ Lorraine Heath, #NFDB
1154:Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. ~ Laurence Sterne, #NFDB
1155:Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship. ~ Natalie Portman, #NFDB
1156:With this life,” said Willow Tail, “I give your heart the grace to forgive all cats, however weak or wrong they may be. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1157:...you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
1158:1JO1.9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1159:Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi, #NFDB
1160:Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. —OSCAR WILDE, ~ Mikal Gilmore, #NFDB
1161:Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help? I ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1162:Don’t we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it. ~ Michael Ondaatje, #NFDB
1163:Do you forgive me for everything? For everything, not only the vase?’ the prince started to get up from his seat, ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1164:Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone in debt to us. And do not bring us into temptation. Luke 11:4 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1165:How love works. You have to forgive. You have to remember that it isn’t always easy. And you have to fight for love, too. ~ Jamie Beck, #NFDB
1166:Impure people oppress, and the pure-hearted not only forgive their oppressors, but elevate them in status and character. ~ Hamza Yusuf, #NFDB
1167:I'm so sorry I wasn't here sooner, but you'll have to forgive an old vampire for being a bit rusty in the dreamscape. ~ Sara Humphreys, #NFDB
1168:I'm willing to forgive the press, or forgive anybody, I was taught to love and forgive, which I do have in my heart. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
1169:Life is short, so forgive quickly, believe slowly, love truly, laugh loudly and never avoid anything that makes you smile. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1170:My dear, don't let the sun go down upon your anger - forgive each other, help each other and begin again tomorrow. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
1171:No matter how much you love someone—the capacity of that love is meaningless if it outweighs your capacity to forgive ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1172:Only God can judge him and his family for the way they treated you. Here, on earth, the right thing to do is forgive. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
1173:People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
1174:People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on. ~ Ming Na Wen, #NFDB
1175:Things look different when you look back through old eyes. The best part is that we learn to forgive our mistakes. ~ Zohreh Ghahremani, #NFDB
1176:Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use. ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
1177:We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
1178:What made me love freedom so much, forgive myself finally for one life and one death? But I knew. I knew it was you. ~ Steve Brezenoff, #NFDB
1179:When you totally forgive your enemy, you have crossed over into the supernatural realm. Perhaps you are like me and wish ~ R T Kendall, #NFDB
1180:Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1181:You are wise only if despite of being capable of taking a revenge & holding onto a grudge, you choose to forgive! ~ Anamika Mishra, #NFDB
1182:You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on. ~ John Lewis, #NFDB
1183:You want to know what I thought of in that boat?
I thought, I have to stay alive. Tatiasha will never forgive me. ~ Paullina Simons,#NFDB
1184:Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive? ~ Miriam Toews, #NFDB
1185:Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1186:Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1187:Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don’t wait, Mitch. Not everyone gets the time I’m getting. Not everyone is as lucky.” I ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1188:He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. ~ Thomas Fuller, #NFDB
1189:I can never forgive evil and lying and cruel means, and still less can I forgive fanatics that use that for an excuse! ~ Sinclair Lewis, #NFDB
1190:In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed. ~ Penn Jillette, #NFDB
1191:I propose a toast. Here’s to being right all the time. May God and history forgive us.” They all clinked glasses to that. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
1192:No matter how much you love someone—the capacity of that love is meaningless if it outweighs your capacity to forgive. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1193:Only one rabbi dared to expect of us such a perfect balance that we could preserve the law and still forgive the deviation. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1194:Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
1195:Ro winks. "I forgive you, Dol-face."
Then, without a word, he takes off running and I have no choice but to follow. ~ Margaret Stohl,#NFDB
1196:That was the problem with understanding someone too well – you couldn’t help but forgive them, no matter what they did. ~ Tommy Wallach, #NFDB
1197:The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
1198:The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them. ~ Baron de Montesquieu, #NFDB
1199:Then forgive him. And if you can't forgive, at least forget, for he meant you no harm, however rash that act was. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
1200:There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1201:The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1202:Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive." ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
1203:Time? Learning to forgive? To forgive yourself most of all? I can't cure you. But you may be able to cure yourself . . . ~ Charles Todd, #NFDB
1204:We do not have to know how to forgive. All we have to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the how. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
1205:When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
1206:You’re thankful for the kind things people say, you forgive the dumb things, but you’re crushed by the silence. ~ Nora McInerny Purmort, #NFDB
1207:God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870), #NFDB
1208:good Christian, Nelly. What else could I do but forgive him? Though my forgiveness was initially hard to give, I admit ~ Kathleen Morgan, #NFDB
1209:Granny was right,' I said. 'When you forgive someone it does make you stronger. It makes your heart bigger than your hate. ~ Jack Gantos, #NFDB
1210:I am betrayed and played but right now im feeling nothing pain but to forgive, it's because I love God too much that I can't hate. ~ AKA, #NFDB
1211:I am ready,’ said Gilda Farren, ‘to forgive—’ ‘Never do that,’ said Wimsey. ‘Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
1212:I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free.” This affirmation sets us free. ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
1213:I fucking need you and I need you to forgive me. I need that more than anything in the world! I need you to make me good. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
1214:It takes strength to forgive and love unconditionally,a nd you have that strength, Savannah. It´s what makes you shine. ~ Michelle Madow, #NFDB
1215:May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1216:One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
1217:"One of the most difficult people to forgive can be yourself. Yet with patience and gentle determination, it can be done." ~ Allan Lokos, #NFDB
1218:Please forgive me, my dear Mr. Lightwood--I mean Gideon-- but I must go and murder the cook. I shall be directly back. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1219:That’s why the old saying goes that failing to forgive is like ingesting poison and expecting the other person to die. ~ Christine Caine, #NFDB
1220:There was nothing to forgive, nothing to explain. Her love washed over me to erase all the years that had come between us. ~ Janie Chang, #NFDB
1221:tunnel of fire. I wonder if it will hurt. God forgive me, for I have sinned. “All right,” Fred says at last. “I promise. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
1222:We can get over the wrongs we do, but we cannot forgive ourselves for the wrongs done to us, for our own helplessness. ~ Ekaterina Sedia, #NFDB
1223:You’re lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive? ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1224:Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance. ~ Thomas Paine, #NFDB
1225:all she knows is that she’s tired of letting the things she doesn’t forgive herself for pile up like leaves in the autumn ~ Trista Mateer, #NFDB
1226:For as long as we are alive it is always possible to start over, all we have to do is let Jesus embrace us and forgive us. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1227:I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all. ~ Rory McIlroy, #NFDB
1228:If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
1229:I would add to that concept that the very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one YOU NEED TO LET GO OF THE MOST. ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
1230:Jaime, dear, forgive me, but I don't think you are man enough to take care of my Cass. She's a special kind of difficult. ~ Mercy Celeste, #NFDB
1231:Listen to me." He grabbed my arms, holding me there. " I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever. ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
1232:My life did not really begin until I summoned the power to forgive my father for making my childhood a long march of terror. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
1233:No matter how much you love someone – the capacity of that love is meaningless if it outweighs your capacity to forgive. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1234:Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
1235:To forgive, one must love and be loved. Only those who forgive can be free. Whoever forgives is a prisoner no more. ~ Jan Philipp Sendker, #NFDB
1236:We forgive someone of a wrong they have done us when we decide that we will not make them suffer for it in any way. This ~ Dallas Willard, #NFDB
1237:We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because we love ourselves so much ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1238:Everything with me had always been black and white. Life or death. I wanted more gray. I wanted to learn how to forgive. ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
1239:Forgive me for not being interested in discussing the days of old when the days of now so consume my thoughts with worry. ~ Robert J Crane, #NFDB
1240:He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater, #NFDB
1241:If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
1242:if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
1243:In my eyes you're perfect, until you lie to me. Betraying my trust is something I can forgive, but never forget. Stay perfect. ~ D C Akers, #NFDB
1244:Isn't it too convenient just to forgive yourself, let yourself off the hook? What will keep you from doing it again, then? ~ Swati Avasthi, #NFDB
1245:I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others. ~ Lauryn Hill, #NFDB
1246:It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you. ~ Tyler Perry, #NFDB
1247:Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot. ~ Charlotte Bronte, #NFDB
1248:No, Peter, not just seven times, but seventy times seven times. You must forgive others in the same way God forgives you. ~ Hidenori Kumai, #NFDB
1249:Sometimes we forgive others because it keeps our own hearts whole, not because they deserve it or for any thought of them. ~ Tessa Gratton, #NFDB
1250:The first thing I thought when I saw her was “Oh, fuck.” Forgive me, Lord, for I wanted to jump that girl’s bones immediately. ~ Seth King, #NFDB
1251:Time is short, Master Gifted, so you’ll forgive me if I say what needs to be said without prefacing it with polite nothings. ~ K M Weiland, #NFDB
1252:Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
1253:We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them. ~ Robert E Lee, #NFDB
1254:We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time. ~ Alice Munro, #NFDB
1255:What's wrong with my proposition?"
Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face. ~ Agatha Christie,#NFDB
1256:When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
1257:Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1258:Forgive Blackie there,” Two-Hawks said. “The boy’s so dumb he could fall into a tub of tits and come out sucking his thumb. ~ Gregg Hurwitz, #NFDB
1259:Forgive her for how her agony reveals itself, child. This is how blood magic works. Unconditional never meant perfect anyway. ~ Nikita Gill, #NFDB
1260:Forgive me for being such a straight shooter. Nowadays they say it’s being direct, but your mama called it being an asshole. ~ Tayari Jones, #NFDB
1261:I can so dearlt distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while abhor the last ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
1262:I can so dearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while abhor the last ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
1263:I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1264:No... no... We never forgive those we can understand... We can only forgive those who wound us for no reason at all... ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1265:Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
1266:The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
1267:When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
1268:Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. ~ Sun Myung Moon, #NFDB
1269:Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life. ~ Tyler Perry, #NFDB
1270:Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
1271:I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1272:In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
1273:Let me be sinful before everyone, but so that everyone will forgive me, and that is paradise. Am I not in paradise now? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1274:only a great fool tortures his heart over what cannot be undone. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and move on. ~ Brian D Anderson, #NFDB
1275:That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
1276:There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, #NFDB
1277:The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1278:This is what happens. You meet people who are in pain, in life and love, and you forgive them for behaving the way they do. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
1279:We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil. ~ Arno Gruen, #NFDB
1280:Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
1281:I don't have to forgive you, Cath said. It's not like that with you. You're just in with me. Always. No matter what happens. ~ Rainbow Rowell, #NFDB
1282:If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt. ~ Tana French, #NFDB
1283:If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other’s toes, we’ll never have time to be friends. ~ Rainbow Rowell, #NFDB
1284:In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions. ~ Ron Fournier, #NFDB
1285:It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them. ~ Lana Turner, #NFDB
1286:Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
1287:Man's duty is to persuade and forgive, not to judge and punish. Kindness breeds kindness, and it is pity that wins amendment. ~ Marcel Allain, #NFDB
1288:Never forget the nine most important words of any family-
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me. ~ H Jackson Brown Jr,#NFDB
1289:The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else. ~ Douglas Kennedy, #NFDB
1290:There are certain trifles I do not forgive. Not having read the required book. Having read it like an idiot.” - John Shade ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
1291:To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew. ~ Elton John, #NFDB
1292:To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”—Robert Mueller ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1293:When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them. ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
1294:You and I . . . we must always forgive and forget. But most importantly, we must never take each other’s forgiveness for granted ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
1295:but once a month, or even once a year, of him, or any one who ever wronged you, you would forgive him in your heart, I know! ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1296:forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail ~ Masashi Kishimoto, #NFDB
1297:He was, in the words of H. H. Munro, a man whose looks made it possible for women to forgive any other trifling inadequacies. ~ Jeffrey Archer, #NFDB
1298:How do we live with all the suffering? We see our ugly parts, and then we are able to forgive, love kindness, walk humbly. ~ Francisco X Stork, #NFDB
1299:I am now willing to forgive myself . . . for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
1300:I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
1301:If I expect nothing of you, it will be far easier to forgive your offenses than if I place my whole world in your hands. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
1302:It’s one thing to forgive yourself a mistake. But if you knew it was a mistake at the time, how do you forgive yourself then? ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
1303:Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself.”
― Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks ~ Eckhart Tolle,#NFDB
1304:Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so also you must forgive. Above all, put on love—the perfect bond of unity. Colossians 3:13–14 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1305:Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
1306:Miss Littlejohn, forgive my boldness in declaring you more beautiful than your portrait promised. I did not think that possible. ~ Lori Benton, #NFDB
1307:Most people behave badly when wounded. If you can remember the wounds, it is far more possible to forgive the behavior. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
1308:Someone can do a terrible unforgivable thing, and yet you forgive them if you love them. The heart is such a strange thing. ~ Sarah Pinborough, #NFDB
1309:Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them." Blanche
Somethings you forgive, somethings you never forgive." Kate ~ Neil Simon,#NFDB
1310:The karmic cycle, when someone screws up really bad and hurts you. Our first instinct is to hurt back, or refuse to forgive. ~ Jennifer Probst, #NFDB
1311:You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
1312:You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things. ~ M L Stedman, #NFDB
1313:For the sake of your name, LORD, forgive my iniquity, though it is great. 12 Who, then, are those who fear the Lord? He will ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
1314:Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
1315:I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
1316:If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1317:I need you to forgive me. And then perhaps I can begin to forgive myself. There is no one but you who can do that either. ~ Patricia A McKillip, #NFDB
1318:It's one thing for forgive yourself a mistake. But if you knew it was a mistake at the time, how do you forgive yourself then? ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
1319:Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
1320:There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else’s. ~ Susan Meissner, #NFDB
1321:Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success. ~ George Horace Lorimer, #NFDB
1322:Forgive Quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile.” – Audrey Hepburn ~ Audrey Hepburn, #NFDB
1323:I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last. ~ Charlotte Bronte, #NFDB
1324:I could forgive my own brother of anything, at the end of the day, because we're brothers. You can't get in between that blood. ~ Jeffrey Pierce, #NFDB
1325:If God said in plain language, “I’m giving you a choice, forgive or die,” a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
1326:It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
1327:It was a truism that people always hated those they had wronged, even if they were prepared to forgive anyone who wronged them. ~ Charlotte Lamb, #NFDB
1328:Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"
Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot. ~ Charlotte Bront,#NFDB
1329:The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God. ~ John Vianney, #NFDB
1330:We can easily forgive a child for being afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light ~Plato~ ~ S S Segran, #NFDB
1331:We do not have to know HOW to forgive. All we need to do is to be WILLING to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows. We ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
1332:We forgive beauty such a lot, thought Agatha suddenly. If he was a little balding man with thick glasses, I might get a bit tetchy. ~ M C Beaton, #NFDB
1333:What should we do about it?” asks Miss Celia.
We. God forgive me, but I wish there wasn’t a “we” mixed up in this. (Minny) ~ Kathryn Stockett,#NFDB
1334:You can spill drinks on me, even spit on me. I'll just laugh about it. But If you dare to hurt my friends... I WON'T FORGIVE YOU! ~ Eiichiro Oda, #NFDB
1335:You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1336:Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him. ~ Michelle Obama, #NFDB
1337:Forgive me, Your Grace. Are you suggesting a woman is some sort of … piece of fruit to you? One squeeze, and you know if she’s ripe? ~ Tessa Dare, #NFDB
1338:forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do,
the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail ~ Masashi Kishimoto,#NFDB
1339:Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
1340:How we forgive narrowness of mind, when it accompanies largeness of heart. Yet no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling. ~ Graham Swift, #NFDB
1341:I could have forgiven him for striking me, but I couldn't forgive that moving me from place to place without even seeing me. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1342:It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness. ~ Deb Caletti, #NFDB
1343:It was one thing to forgive, it was another to climb back into the cage with that bear, even if it was wearing a tutu and smiling. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
1344:Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
1345:Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. ~ M L Stedman, #NFDB
1346:There are two things I ask of you. One is to learn to forgive those you love. Be prepared. You will be called on one day to forgive. ~ Ay e Kulin, #NFDB
1347:To be a follower of Christ and not just a fan means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
1348:When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart. ~ Marci Shimoff, #NFDB
1349:When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward. ~ Tyler Perry, #NFDB
1350:You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without. ~ Gary Renard, #NFDB
1351:And throughout all Eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.
As our dear Redeemer said:
“This the Wine, and this the Bread. ~ William Blake,#NFDB
1352:A Prayer for Forgiveness of Those
Who Have Hurt Me Dear God, Please forgive those that have hurt me because I forgive them. Amen. ~ Lorna Byrne,#NFDB
1353:I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1354:My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1355:problem is, we can solve it through prayer; we can forgive ourselves instantaneously, and be healed; this is the glorious Truth. ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
1356:She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me. ~ Matthew Lewis, #NFDB
1357:Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. ~ Lawrence G Lovasik, #NFDB
1358:There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health. ~ Herbert Benson, #NFDB
1359:The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive. ~ Demi Moore, #NFDB
1360:The truth is, Archer tells me, you stay in Hell until you forgive yourself. "You fucked up. Game over," he says, "so just relax. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1361:What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1362:And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons. ~ John E Hines, #NFDB
1363:A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB
1364:I believe what Jesus said was, 'I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is required that you forgive all men. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
1365:If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget. ~ Louise Bourgeois, #NFDB
1366:I wanted to learn about him so I could hate him more. I didn't expect his answer to make me want to forgive him. Cheating bastard ! ~ Stylo Fantome, #NFDB
1367:Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton, #NFDB
1368:The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves. ~ James Van Praagh, #NFDB
1369:The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive. ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
1370:Then maybe Roman will be able to forgive me.”
“I believe he will.” Father Andrew glanced at Connor. “Can you forgive yourself? ~ Kerrelyn Sparks,#NFDB
1371:We don’t have the right to forgive people; it is not only about our kindness or gentleness, it is about keeping the justice stable. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
1372:We laughed at the hollyhocks together and then I sprayed them with lye. Forgive me. I simply do not know what I am doing. ~ William Carlos Williams, #NFDB
1373:When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1374:You need to forgive yourself. You need to believe what you did is not more powerful than what God can do from this point forward. ~ Cindy Woodsmall, #NFDB
1375:But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive. ~ Kristan Higgins, #NFDB
1376:Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1377:He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all. ~ Cormac McCarthy, #NFDB
1378:Henry Ward Beecher expressed the thought this way: "I can forgive but I cannot forget is another way of saying I cannot forgive. ~ Spencer W Kimball, #NFDB
1379:I can leave myself to rot in the past, spending time hating people for what happened, like my father did, or I can forgive and forget. ~ M L Stedman, #NFDB
1380:I told a lie. You must forgive me. I broke an oath, letting him perish. Should I have chosen him to survive, knowing his heritage? ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
1381:One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself. ~ Krishna Das, #NFDB
1382:Please . . . forgive me.” “Aye, I will,” he said in measured tones, removing his tricorn. “If you’ll return to Fort Endeavor with me. ~ Laura Frantz, #NFDB
1383:We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free! ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
1384:We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1385:And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.
He wished that he had never met any of them. ~ Melina Marchetta,#NFDB
1386:Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
1387:Gods forgive me, I hate using guns. They’re hands-down the worst human invention, next to the nuclear bomb. And maybe reality television. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1388:... I want most of all for you to forgive Grandfather. I want you to forgive Grandfather so I can grow up and be just like you. ~ Patricia MacLachlan, #NFDB
1389:I was her world, yes, and I was at that point we all reach where I was denying she was mine. I'd never quiet forgive myself for that. ~ Danny Wallace, #NFDB
1390:Josie, life is not a romance novel. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1391:Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
1392:Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
1393:The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
1394:You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big. ~ Andrew Carnegie, #NFDB
1395:You come inside and pack all of the things that you will take with you, and try to forgive yourself for what you’re leaving behind. But ~ Hope Jahren, #NFDB
1396:a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement. ~ Min Jin Lee, #NFDB
1397:Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. —COLOSSIANS 3:13 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1398:DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women. ~ Gail Collins, #NFDB
1399:Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.” LUKE 6 : 37 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1400:I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face. ~ Ryan Winfield, #NFDB
1401:If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much. ~ Leighton Meester, #NFDB
1402:If you can forgive me, forgive
me,’ said her eyes, ‘I am so happy.’
‘I hate them all, and you, and myself,’ his eyes
responded. ~ Leo Tolstoy,#NFDB
1403:If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart. ~ James Hilton, #NFDB
1404:I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this. ~ Melissa de la Cruz, #NFDB
1405:Jenn: Do you love him?
Ani: Yeah, I do.
Jenn: Then you can forgive him. It's not worth it to let love slip through your hands. ~ Cheyenne McCray,#NFDB
1406:Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
1407:The greatest gift of surrender was that it helped me to realize that it is arrogant of me not to forgive myself when God forgives me. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
1408:The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God. ~ Charles Webster Leadbeater, #NFDB
1409:Well, if you find yourself living by something that can't forgive ... then you die to it and look around for something that can. ~ Robert Farrar Capon, #NFDB
1410:We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1411:We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
1412:When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
1413:When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
1414:You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1415:You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make you feel bad. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1416:You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference. ~ Glen Duncan, #NFDB
1417:And despite all that, she finds a way to forgive you. She finds a way to love you. Then you take that love and beat her to death with it. ~ Lola St Vil, #NFDB
1418:And you will forgive me too, one day, Asajj Ventress.” He hesitated, and took a breath. “That’s what you do for…for the one you love. ~ Christie Golden, #NFDB
1419:Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1420:Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes. ~ Ajahn Brahm, #NFDB
1421:forgive myself; and ask them for forgiveness. More important, I had to see the best in them, no matter what they chose for themselves. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
1422:Forgive this moralising speech, you do not know, you cannot know, what it means to have eyes in a world in which everyone else is blind. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1423:I came today because I realized that if I can't forgive her and love her as she is, then I can't expect anyone to do the same for me. ~ Mina V Esguerra, #NFDB
1424:I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1425:It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends? ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
1426:...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
1427:"Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest." ~ Sri Chinmoy#srichinmoy #happiness, #NFDB
1428:She’d left him.
Without a word. Without a thought. She’d left him and now he had
feelings.
For that alone, he’d never forgive her. ~ G A Aiken,#NFDB
1429:That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. “To know all is to forgive all. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1430:To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” Robert Muller Chapter ~ Tonya Kappes, #NFDB
1431:Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
1432:We're a team. It's part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. Otherwise, we'd never get anything done. ~ Jeramey Kraatz, #NFDB
1433:You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you. ~ Ben Kingsley, #NFDB
1434:Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning. ~ Debbie Ford, #NFDB
1435:Forgive me, I don't mean to be rude," Red said to the twins. "It's just every time I see you two I'm heartbroken, kidnapped, or homeless. ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
1436:Forgive those whose actions are the outcome of their personality, and forget those whose personalities are the outcome of their actions. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
1437:I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief." ~ Robert Southey, #NFDB
1438:If you believe in God you get to the point where (you feel) "Yeah, you know what, God forgave my sins but I still have to forgive myself." ~ Kevin Sorbo, #NFDB
1439:I have lived a long time and I have learned that one must forgive oneself the past or else the journey into the future becomes unbearable. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
1440:nothing can be more noble or approach the Divine nature more closely than to forgive those who injure us, and to return good for evil. ~ Lorenzo Scupoli, #NFDB
1441:People who love us do black magic on us, but they don’t know what they do. That is why we must forgive them; they don’t know what they do. ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
1442:Those who kill can never be forgiven, for their victims cannot forgive them. And they go, drenched in guilt, to their graves. [Sylvian] ~ Karen Maitland, #NFDB
1443:AS I LEARNED TO FORGIVE MY SISTER, I LEARNED TO FORGIVE MYSELF FOR ALL THE TIMES I DID TO OTHER WOMEN WHAT I THOUGHT SHE HAD DONE TO ME. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
1444:A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1445:A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered. ~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, #NFDB
1446:Close your Koran.
Think in freedom and look with open mind
at Heaven and Earth. Forgive everyone his sins. Don't cause anyone grief. ~ Omar Khayy m,#NFDB
1447:"Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes." ~ Ajahn Brahm, #NFDB
1448:Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you. ~ Drake, #NFDB
1449:I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi, #NFDB
1450:I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1451:Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow. ~ Allen Ginsberg, #NFDB
1452:The sons of the masters were roaming the world, looking for arms to hold them. And the arms that might have held them--could not forgive. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
1453:This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
1454:When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1455:You asked why I couldn't forgive you.
It was because you were the love of my life. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go. ~ Kristan Higgins,#NFDB
1456:Because I know you, Sarah. You can forgive everyone in the world except for yourself. I wanted the truth, not your rose-colored version of it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1457:Broken people give broken love. And we are all a little broken. You just have to forgive and sew up the wounds love delivers, and move on. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
1458:Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all. ~ Mike Huckabee, #NFDB
1459:Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel. ~ Lloyd Alexander, #NFDB
1460:Forgive yourself for the child you were unable to save, Darius, and praise God for the many who are alive today because of your actions. ~ Karen Witemeyer, #NFDB
1461:Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without. ~ Sri Chinmoy, #NFDB
1462:God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1463:God didn’t just forgive you. No, he has come to live inside of you so you will have the power to desire and do what he calls you to do. ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
1464:If you have anything against someone, forgive — only then will your heavenly Father be inclined to also wipe your slate clean of sins. ~ Eugene H Peterson, #NFDB
1465:I wanted him back in a howling way. I needed to make things right, to forgive and be forgiven, which amounted to the same impossible thing. ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
1466:Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1467:Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray, #NFDB
1468:No one is your judge now,’ Mavriky Nikolayevich stated firmly, ‘may God forgive you; I’m less worthy than anyone of being your judge! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1469:People hurt each other. It happens to everyone. It's part of what we do as people. The beauty is that we have the ability to heal and forgive ~ Adi Alsaid, #NFDB
1470:Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe.
It required bandaging. ~ Woody Allen,#NFDB
1471:Treacheries experienced in childhood are among the most difficult to overcome, or to forgive, as are dreams crushed when one is too young. ~ Cherise Wolas, #NFDB
1472:When Allah grants us the sense to ask Him for forgiveness, then He has granted us a huge favor. It's a sign that He wants to forgive us. ~ Nouman Ali Khan, #NFDB
1473:Broken people give broken love. And we are all a little broken. You just have to forgive and sew up the wounds love delivers, and move on. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
1474:If there were two enemies hating each other for a long time, to me, the winner would be the one who finally has the courage to forgive. ~ Primadonna Angela, #NFDB
1475:Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1476:Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1477:Life’s too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what’s right. Right by your own heart.…Forgiveness sets you free. ~ Cheryl Kaye Tardif, #NFDB
1478:May the dead forgive me, I can do no other
But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene, Antigone (The Theban Plays) by Sophocles ~ Sophocles,#NFDB
1479:Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive. ~ Parker J Palmer, #NFDB
1480:Sometimes it is hard not to say "God forgive God." Sometimes, it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1481:Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1482:The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too. ~ Jane Fonda, #NFDB
1483:To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to learn to forgive ~ Tariq Ramadan, #NFDB
1484:What's wrong with my proposition? Poirot rose. If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like tour face, M. Ratchett, he said. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1485:You have to forgive everyone for everything. You can’t cling on to any blame that you may be using to make sense of the story of your life. ~ Russell Brand, #NFDB
1486:All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person. ~ Asa Don Brown, #NFDB
1487:Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
1488:From a child I was taught to forgive and forget, but it's difficult to forget these things, the loss of parents, of children and grandchildren. ~ Ann Leckie, #NFDB
1489:I have lived a long time and I have learned that one must forgive oneself the past or else the journey into the the future becomes unbearable. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
1490:It’s really a blessing, to let go of grudges, to forgive, and to move on. To allow yourself to get rid of what they called emotional hoarding. ~ Kaira Rouda, #NFDB
1491:It takes strength to forgive. When you fall in love with a strong woman and screw up, she will forgive you… after she is done kicking your ass. ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
1492:I've always believed that you must be able to appreciate the things that people can give you, and forgive them for the things they can't. ~ Elizabeth Isaacs, #NFDB
1493:Maybe you will never be able to forgive me, but I wanted you to know I had the best intentions-and I still love you in my own fucked-up way. ~ Matthew Quick, #NFDB
1494:No worries. They don’t scare me. (Devyn) All right, but if my brain matter ends up smeared against a wall, I’ll never forgive you. (Alix) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1495:... this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them... ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
1496:We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB
1497:You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
1498:You’ll forgive me for saying so, my dear, but I perceive very little aura around you. Very little receptivity to the resonances of the future. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1499:An old childhood playmate once told me ‘second guessing every step prevents any forward momentum. Trust yourself. Forgive yourself. And move on. ~ A G Howard, #NFDB
1500:Dear God, please help me find the strength and love within myself to forgive others so that I may move forward on my path in your service. ~ Kathleen McGowan, #NFDB
109 Poetry
32 Integral Yoga
31 Philosophy
31 Christianity
18 Fiction
15 Mysticism
11 Occultism
9 Yoga
6 Mythology
5 Baha i Faith
4 Sufism
3 Psychology
3 Education
1 Philsophy
1 Integral Theory
1 Hinduism
1 Buddhism
1 Alchemy
21 The Mother
20 Sri Aurobindo
16 William Wordsworth
16 Friedrich Nietzsche
14 Saint Augustine of Hippo
12 Satprem
11 Robert Browning
10 Sri Ramakrishna
10 Saint John of Climacus
9 William Butler Yeats
9 Percy Bysshe Shelley
9 H P Lovecraft
8 John Keats
6 Ovid
6 Baha u llah
6 Anonymous
6 Aleister Crowley
5 Rabindranath Tagore
5 Plato
4 Saint Teresa of Avila
4 Nolini Kanta Gupta
4 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4 Friedrich Schiller
4 Aldous Huxley
3 James George Frazer
2 William Blake
2 Walt Whitman
2 Saint Francis of Assisi
2 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Jordan Peterson
2 Jalaluddin Rumi
2 Edgar Allan Poe
2 Al-Ghazali
16 Wordsworth - Poems
14 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
13 The Bible
11 Browning - Poems
10 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
10 Agenda Vol 01
9 Yeats - Poems
9 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
9 Shelley - Poems
9 Lovecraft - Poems
9 City of God
8 Keats - Poems
6 Words Of Long Ago
6 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
6 Metamorphoses
5 Tagore - Poems
5 Magick Without Tears
4 The Way of Perfection
4 The Perennial Philosophy
4 Schiller - Poems
4 Faust
4 Essays On The Gita
3 The Red Book Liber Novus
3 The Golden Bough
3 Some Answers From The Mother
3 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
3 Collected Poems
2 Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit
2 Whitman - Poems
2 Twilight of the Idols
2 The Book of Certitude
2 The Alchemy of Happiness
2 Rumi - Poems
2 Poe - Poems
2 On Education
2 Maps of Meaning
2 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
2 Essays Divine And Human
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
2 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
2 5.1.01 - Ilion
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
The last chapter of A Garden deals with the Way of Return. It used almost entirely Crowley's concept of the Path as described in his superb essay "One Star in Sight." In addition to this, I borrowed extensively from Lawrence's Apropos. Somehow, they all fitted together very nicely. In time, all these variegated notes were incorporated into the text without acknowledgment, an oversight which I now feel sure would be Forgiven, since I was only twenty-four at the time.
Some modern Nature-worshippers and members of the newly-washed and redeemed witch-cult have complimented me on this closing chapter which I entitled 'The Ladder." I am pleased about this. For a very long time I was not at all familiar with the topic of witchcraft. I had avoided it entirely, not being attracted to its literature in any way. In fact, I only became slightly conversant with its theme and literature just a few years ago, after reading "The Anatomy of Eve" written by Dr. Leopold Stein, a Jungian analyst. In the middle of his study of four cases, he included a most informative chapter on the subject. This served to stimulate me to wider reading in that area.
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Please Forgive me for my ambiguous reply to Z. I
bow to You, full of remorse.
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Won't you Forgive me? Mother, take me into your
arms.
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Certainly I Forgive you, but you, on your side, must sweep
your mind clean of all these bad thoughts which are harmful to
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Yes, my dear child, I Forgive you; but how I would like you to
become quieter, more reasonable, more studious!
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
to be Forgiven for my stupidity.
O! How could I question your love, you who are
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Accept my love and Forgive me my lapses - as you
have been doing for so many years. I expect these moods
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that I am forgiving. Love does not Forgive, it understands and
cures.
0 1955-09-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother, I would like you to Forgive me, to understand me and, above all, not to deprive me of your Love. I would like you to tell me if I may leave for a few weeks and how you feel about it. It seems to me that I am profoundly your child, in spite of all this??
Signed: Bernard
0 1956-04-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I also had a very clear sensation that you were abandoning me, that you had no further interest in me and I could just as well do as I pleased. Perhaps you cannot Forgive some of my inner rebellions which have been so very violent? Am I totally guilty? Is it true that you are abandoning me?
I am broken and battered in the depths of my being as I was in my flesh in the concentration camps. Will the divine grace take pity on me? Can you, do you want to help me? Alone I can do nothing. I am in an absolute solitude, even beyond all rebellion, at my very end.
0 1956-12-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Forgive me, Mother, for loving you so poorly, for giving myself so badly. Mother, you are my only hope, all the rest in me is utter despair.
Your child,
0 1957-04-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
For more than a year now, I have been hypnotized by the idea that if I give in, I will be condemned to remain here. Once more, Forgive me for speaking so absurdly, for of course I know it is not a condemnation; and yet a part of me feels that it would be.
Thus I am so tense that I do not even want to close my eyes to meditate for fear of yielding. And I fall into all kinds of errors that horrify me, simply because the pressure is too strong at times, and I literally suffocate. Mother, I am not cut out to be a disciple.
0 1958-07-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Something I have never said completely. On the one hand, there is the attitude of those in yesterday evenings film2: God is everything, God is everywhere, God is in he who smites you (as Sri Aurobindo wroteGod made me good with a blow, shall I tell Him: O Mighty One, I Forgive you your harm and cruelty but do not do it again!), an attitude which, if extended to its ultimate conclusion, accepts the world as it is: the world is the perfect expression of the divine Will. On the other hand, there is the attitude of progress and transformation. But for that, you must recognize that there are things in the world which are not as they should be.
In The Synthesis of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo says that this idea of good and bad, of pure and impure, is a notion needed for action; but the purists, such as Chaitanya, Ramakrishna and others, do not agree. They do not agree that it is indispensable for action. They simply say: your acceptance of action as a necessary thing is contrary to your perception of the Divine in all things.
0 1958-12-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother, I need you, I need you. Forgive me and tell me what I should do.
Your child,
0 1958-12-15 - tantric mantra - 125,000, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Forgive me, Mother, for all the pain I may have thrown on you, but I am confident that with your Grace I will emerge from this victorious, your child unobscured, in all the fibers of my being. Oh Mother, how alone you are to bear all our suffering if only I could remember this in my moments of darkness.
I am at your feet. You are my Mother, my only support.
0 1959-06-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I have no other details to give you, except that I am not happy. The fact is that these last three years I have been tied down by my penury, otherwise I would be travelling along other roads, far from herewith no greater hope in my heart, but with space before me, at least. I am only here to render you service, but I do not know if I shall be able to repress my need for space much longerit has already been going on too long. This is the undisguised truth. But what can I do?I am tied down. If I truly loved, things would be different, but it seems I love no one, not even myself, and the only love of which I am capable, human love, is forbidden to me. So I can do nothing, not on any plane, and I have no hope in anything. Forgive me, I do not wish to pain you, but neither can I pretend any longer to be happy with my lot.
Signed: Satprem
0 1959-06-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Forgive me for these last letters. I was suffering.
It seems to me that for months I have been far away from you. I no longer see you in my dreams, I no longer feel you. What, then is this path I am following?
0 1959-07-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Thats all, Mother. Forgive me, but I am so afraid. For how is this possible in the Ashram? What would people say?
Mother, my whole soul writes you this. I swear there is in me a single great need of Love, beauty, nobility, purity. And we would work for you together in joy at last.1
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have seen other things but I have rarely seen anything favorable in churches. Here, I remember going to M I was taken inside and received there in quite an unusual waya highly respected person introduced me as a great saint! They led me up to the main altar where people are not usually allowed to go, and what did I see there! An asura (oh, not a very high-ranking one, more like a rakshasa4), but such a monster! Hideous. So I went wham! (gesture of giving a blow) I thought something was going to happen. But this being left the altar and came over to try to intimidate me; of course, he saw it was useless, so he offered to make an alliance: If you just keep quiet and dont do anything, I will share all I get with you. Well, I sent him packing! The head of this Math5. It was a Math with a monastery and temple, which means a substantial fortune; the head of the Math has it all at his disposal for as long as he holds the position and he is appointed for life. But he has to name his successor and as a rule, his own life is considerably shortened by the successorthis is how it works. Everyone knew that the present head had considerably shortened the life of his predecessor. And what a creature! As asuric as the god he worshipped! I saw some poor fellows throw themselves at his feet (he must have been squeezing them pitilessly), to beg Forgiveness and mercyan absolutely ruthless man. But he received meyou should have seen it! I said nothing, not a word about their god; I gave no sign that I knew anything. But I thought to myself, So thats how it is!
Another thing happened to me in a fishing village near A., on the seashore, where there is a temple dedicated to Kalia terrible Kali. I dont know what happened to her, but she had been buried with only her head sticking out! A fantastic story I knew nothing about it at all. I was going by car from A. to this temple and halfway there a black form, in great agitation, came rushing towards me, asking for my help: Ill give you everything I haveall my power, all the peoples worshipif you help me to become omnipotent! Of course, I answered her as she deserved! I later asked who this was, and they told me that some sort of misfortune had befallen her and she had been buried with only her head above ground. And every year this fishing village has a festival and slaughters thousands of chickensshe likes chicken! Thousands of chickens. They pluck them on the spot (the whole place gets covered with feathers), and then, after offering the blood and making the sacrifice, the people, naturally, eat them all up. The day I came this had taken place that very morningfea thers littered everywhere! It was disgusting. And she was asking for my help!
0 1965-11-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The vision had such majestic and calm and smiling beauty, oh! It was full, really full of divine Love. And not a divine Love that Forgives thats not at all the point, not at all!each thing in its own place, realizing its inner rhythm as perfectly as it can. Thats all.
That was a very beautiful gift.
09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Which never shall Forgive, while Time endures,
The primal violence that fashioned thought,
10.01 - A Dream, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
At once Harimohon could see into the mans mind. He saw, as in an opulent city ravaged by a victorious enemy, innumerable terrible-looking demons and ogres who had entered into that brilliant intelligence, disturbing its peace and composure, plundering its happiness. The old man had quarrelled with his young son and turned him out; the sorrow of losing his beloved child had cowed down his spirit, but anger, pride and vanity had shut the door of his heart and were guarding it. Forgiveness had no entry there. Hearing calumnies against his own daughter he had driven her away and was lamenting over the cherished one he had lost. He knew that she was chaste but the fear of social censure and a feeling of shame coupled with his own arrogance and selfishness had put a curb on his affection. Frightened by the memory of a thousand sins the old man was trembling, but he did not have the courage or the strength to mend his evil ways. Now and then thoughts of death and of the other world came to him and filled him with terror. Harimohon saw also that from behind these morbid thoughts the hideous messenger of death was constantly peeping out and knocking at the door. Whenever this happened, the old mans heart sank and he frantically screamed with fear.
Horrified by this sight Harimohon looked at the boy and exclaimed, Why, Keshta! I used to think this man the happiest of all! The boy replied, Just there lies my power. Tell me now which of the two is mightierthis Tinkari Sheel or Sri Krishna, the master of Vaikuntha? Look, Harimohon, I too have the police, sentinels, government, law, justice, I too can play the game of being a king; do you like this game? No, my child, answered Harimohon, it is a very cruel game. Why, do you like it? The boy laughed and declared, I like all sorts of games; I like to whip as well as to be whipped. Then he continued. You see, Harimohon, people like you look at the outward appearance of things and have not yet cultivated the subtle power of looking inside. Therefore you grumble that you are miserable and Tinkari is happy. This man has no material want; still, compared to you, how much more this millionaire is suffering! Can you guess why? Happiness is a state of mind, misery also is a state of mind. Both are only mind-created. He Who possesses nothing, whose only possessions are difficulties, even he, if he wills, can be greatly happy. But just as you cannot find happiness after spending your days in dry piety, and as you are always dwelling upon your miseries so too this man who spends his days in sins which give him no real pleasure is now thinking only of his miseries. All this is the fleeting happiness of virtue and the fleeting misery of vice, or the fleeting misery of virtue and the fleeting happiness of vice. There is no joy in this conflict. The image of the abode of bliss is with me: he who comes to me, falls in love with me, wants me, lays his demands on me, torments mehe alone can succeed in getting my image of bliss. Harimohon went on eagerly listening to these words of Sri Krishna. The boy continued, And look here, Harimohon, dry piety has lost its charm for you, but in spite of that you cannot give it up, habit4 binds you to it; you cannot even conquer this petty vanity of being pious. This old man, on the other hand, gets no joy from his sins, yet he too cannot abandon them because he is habituated to them, and is suffering hells own agonies in this life. These are the bonds of virtue and vice; fixed and rigid notions, born of ignorance, are the ropes of these bonds. But the sufferings of that old man are indeed a happy sign. They will do him good and soon liberate him.
1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
Whoso layeth claim to a Revelation direct from God, ere the expiration of a full thousand years, such a man is assuredly a lying impostor. We pray God that He may graciously assist him to retract and repudiate such claim. Should he repent, God will, no doubt, Forgive him. If, however, he persisteth in his error, God will, assuredly, send down one who will deal mercilessly with him. Terrible, indeed, is God in punishing! Whosoever interpreteth this verse otherwise than its obvious meaning is deprived of the Spirit of God and of His mercy which encompasseth all created things. Fear God, and follow not your idle fancies. Nay, rather, follow the bidding of your Lord, the Almighty, the All-Wise. Erelong shall clamorous voices be raised in most lands. Shun them, O My people, and follow not the iniquitous and evil-hearted. This is that of which We gave you forewarning when We were dwelling in Iraq, then later while in the Land of Mystery, and now from this Resplendent Spot.
38
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God hath imposed a fine on every adulterer and adulteress, to be paid to the House of Justice: nine mithqals of gold, to be doubled if they should repeat the offence. Such is the penalty which He Who is the Lord of Names hath assigned them in this world; and in the world to come He hath ordained for them a humiliating torment. Should anyone be afflicted by a sin, it behoveth him to repent thereof and return unto his Lord. He, verily, granteth Forgiveness unto whomsoever He willeth, and none may question that which it pleaseth Him to ordain. He is, in truth, the Ever-Forgiving, the Almighty, the All-Praised.
50
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Blessed is he who, at the hour of dawn, centring his thoughts on God, occupied with His remembrance, and supplicating His Forgiveness, directeth his steps to the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar and, entering therein, seateth himself in silence to listen to the verses of God, the Sovereign, the Mighty, the All-Praised. Say: The Mashriqu'l-Adhkar is each and every building which hath been erected in cities and villages for the celebration of My praise. Such is the name by which it hath been designated before the throne of glory, were ye of those who understand.
116
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thee-verses sent down by God, the Omnipotent Protector, the Lord of might and power. Beware lest the fire of thy presumptuousness debar thee from attaining to God's Holy Court. Turn unto Him, and fear not because of thy deeds. He, in truth, Forgiveth whomsoever He desireth as a bounty on His part; no God is there but Him, the Ever-Forgiving, the All-Bounteous.
We admonish thee solely for the sake of God. Shouldst thou accept this counsel, thou wilt have acted to thine own behoof; and shouldst thou reject it, thy Lord, verily, can well dispense with thee, and with all those who, in manifest delusion, have followed thee. Behold! God hath laid hold on him who led thee astray. Return unto God, humble, submissive and lowly; verily, He will put away from thee thy sins, for thy Lord, of a certainty, is the Forgiving, the Mighty, the All-Merciful.
10.10 - A Poem, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Intense love, intense Forgiveness, tobacco-free hero
Gouranga is Shachisut 7
1.01 - BOOK THE FIRST, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
If yet they can Forgive, and yet be kind;
Tell how we may restore, by second birth,
1.01 - Soul and God, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
Who are you, child? My dreams have represented you as a child and as a maiden. 49 I am ignorant of your mystery. 50 Forgive me if I speak as in a dream, like a drunkard are you God? Is God a child, a maiden?51 Forgive me if I babble. No one else hears me. I speak to you quietly, and you know that I am neither a drunkard nor someone deranged, and that my heart twists in pain from the wound, whose darkness delivers speeches full of mockery: You are lying to yourself! You spoke so as to deceive others and make them believe in you. You want to be a prophet and chase after your ambition.
The wound still bleeds, and I am far from being able to pretend that
1.01 - To Watanabe Sukefusa, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
After the incident, mother and son both acted as though nothing had happened. But later that night, at about eleven o'clock, Shinkichir suddenly broke into loud screams that shook and convulsed his entire body. "How terrible! Please Forgive me! It's all my fault!" he moaned over and over. Violent sweat began pouring down his body, increasing as the night wore on. He fell in and out of consciousness. His screams resounded through the streets, causing a flurry of excitement to pass through the village.
By morning the fever had subsided, and people began coming by to see how he was. "It sounded like you were in terrible agony last night," they said. "Actually," he replied, "I was in some kind of a trance. An old man appeared to me wearing the headdress, white court garments, and black footwear of ancient times. Crowds of monstrous-looking creatures were milling around him, so ghastly I was forced to turn my eyes away. 'This is an emissary from hell. Do exactly as he says,' the creatures
1.02 - Education, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When a child has done something wrong, see that he confesses it to you spontaneously and frankly; and when he has confessed, with kindness and affection make him understand what was wrong in his movement so that he will not repeat it, but never scold him; a fault confessed must always be Forgiven. You should not allow any fear to come between you and your child; fear is a pernicious means of education: it invariably gives birth to deceit and lying. Only a discerning affection that is firm yet gentle and an adequate practical knowledge will create the bonds of trust that are indispensable for you to be able to educate your child effectively. And do not forget that you have to control yourself constantly in order to be equal to your task and truly fulfil the duty which you owe your child by the mere fact of having brought him into the world.
Bulletin, February 1951
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
When it was over, she told him that his father had called him back and Forgiven him. To he went to him
and told him everything: how his brothers had deceived him, and how they had forced him to keep
1.02 - Meditating on Tara, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
hatred toward them. We have to be able to Forgive them for the wrongs
theyve done. To do that, we have to get me out of the way and see that
--
state, let your mind/heart rest in the state of Forgiveness. Let go of anger
and let your mind be peaceful. If you are able to take the next step, imbue
1.02 - On the Knowledge of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
The sixth class who indulge in error, are those who, exalted with pride, think that they have already attained and are perfect: and they say, "we have reached such a state that transgressions do us no harm: we are like the sea, which is not polluted by filth falling into it." These foolish people are so ignorant, that they do not know that "to be like the sea," means to attain such a degree of calm that no wind can put them in movement and that nothing can cause any perturbation in their minds. These persons on the contrary, if an individual fail to treat them with honor and respect, or if in conversation the individual do not address them as, my lord or dear sir, or speak a word that touches their reputation, they bear him a grudge for a long time, and even perhaps attempt to do him an injury. And if a person take a piece of money or a morsel of bread from them, the world becomes too straight for them, and every thing looks dark. These foolish people have not even yet reached manhood. They are weak in their own souls, and are in subjection like slaves to passion and anger. If it were not so, how could they be so inconsiderate and presumptuous? Beloved, the falsehood and error of these people appear from this consideration. When inadvertently any of the prophets fell into sin, even a little and venial sin, they would spend years in mourning and lamentation over it, and occupied themselves in endeavors to obliterate [62] their faults, and to obtain pardon and Forgiveness. Filled with fear and dread, they became blind from their tears; from their long continuing perturbation and distraction of mind, yon would think they had lost the use of their reason. As for the companions of the prophet, and their immediate successors who were faithful witnesses for the truth and the beloved of God, they were so afraid in their suspicionsness of doing wrong, that they abstained in their anxiety, from doing even what was lawful. Do not these ignoramuses know that their degree of attainment does not equal that of the prophets and apostles, and that they are even at a great distance from them ? Why then do they not shrink in fear and awe from the shining vengeance of the glorious God ?
If they urge, however, that the transgressions of the prophets were doing them no injury, but that they were exercising prudence and carefulness for the sake of other people, we then reply, that you also ought to be careful, lest other people seeing your actions, should imitate your example. And if they respond, we do not belong to the rank of prophets, that men should walk in our steps, or that any injury should befall us, on account of the sins which they may commit, we would again reply,/that it is better that no injury should come to you in consequence of the sins done from imitating you, than that injury should not befall the prophets from the sins done in consequence of imitating them; for they are the praised and accepted servants of God; their earlier and their later sins have been pardoned, and they are blessed in Paradise. Why, then, was it so necessary that they should abstain from forbidden things, from things of a doubtful nature and even from permitted things ? It is said that one day some ripe dates were brought to the prophet, and he took one and put it in his blessed mouth. But immediately a doubt entered his mind, as to the manner in which the dates had been obtained, [63] and he took it out of his blessed mouth and would not eat it. On another occasion a cup of milk was brought to the faithful witness Aboo Bekir by his slave, and he took it and drank it. After drinking it, he inquired, "where did yon get the milk ?" The slave said, "I told a man his fortune, and he gave me the milk in return." As soon as the faithful witness heard this, he frowned severely upon his servant, inserted his blessed finger down his mouth, and threw up the whole of the milk, so that none of it remained on his stomach. He then said, "I fear that if any of the milk should remain on my stomach, God would expel knowledge and love from my heart." Now what harm could result to other people from their eating those dates or drinking that milk, that they should have been so careful about such little things ? And since they did abstain from such little things, regarding them as injurious, how should it be otherwise than injurious to these foolish people to drink wine, in full bowls and even by the jar full ?
1.02 - On the Service of the Soul, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
63 On the following night I had to write down all the dreams that I could recollect, true to their wording. 64 The meaning of this act was dark to me. Why all this? Forgive the fuss that rises in me. Yet you want me to do this. What strange things are happening to me? I know too much not to see on what swaying bridges I go.
Where are you leading me? Forgive my excessive apprehension, brimful of knowledge. My foot hesitates to follow you. Into what mist and darkness does your path lead? Must I also learn to do without meaning? If this is what you demand, then so be it. This hour belongs to you. What is there, where there is no meaning?
Only nonsense, or madness, it seems to me. Is there also a supreme meaning? Is that your meaning, my soul? I limp after you on crutches of understanding. I am a man and you stride like a God.
1.02 - The Child as growing being and the childs experience of encountering the teacher., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
We can find remarkable illustrations of this attitude. Id like to mention one, but only parenthetically. Theres a chapter (incidentally, a very interesting chapter in some ways) in Mau- rice Maeterlincks new book The Great Riddle. 4 Its subject is the anthroposophical method of viewing the world. He discusses anthroposophy, and he also discusses me (if youll Forgive a per- sonal reference). He has read many of my books and makes a very interesting comment. He says that, at the beginning of my books, I seem to have a levelheaded, logical, and shrewd mind. In the later chapters, however, it seems as if I had lost my mind. It may very well appear this way to Maeterlinck; subjectively he has every right to his opinion. Why shouldnt I seem levelheaded, logical and scientific to him in the first chapters, and insane in later ones?
Of course, Maeterlinck has a right to think this way, and nobody wants to dispute that. The question is, however, whether such an attitude isnt really absurd. Indeed, it does become absurd when you consider this: I have, unfortunately, written a great many books in my life (as you can see from the unusual appearance of the book table here). No sooner have I finished writing one, than I begin another. When Maurice Maeterlinck reads the new book, hell discover once again that in the first chapters I am shrewd, levelheaded and scientific, and then I lose my mind later on. Then I begin to write a third book; the first chapters again are reasonable and so forth. Consequently, if nothing else, I seem to have mastered the art of becoming at will a completely reasonable human being in the early part of a book andequally by choicea lunatic later, only to return to reason when I write the next book. In this way, I take turns being reasonable and a lunatic. Naturally, Maeterlinck has every right to find this; but he misses the absurdity of such an idea. A modern man of his importance thus falls into absurdities; but this, as I say, is only a little parenthetical remark.
1.02 - To Zen Monks Kin and Koku, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
Asking your Forgiveness in this matter, I am, yours truly, [Hakuin]
HOZ, 2:109
1.03 - Invocation of Tara, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
mantras, asking Forgiveness for errors made during
the ritual, the departure of the deity in his or her
1.03 - Questions and Answers, #Book of Certitude, #unset, #Zen
ANSWER: Should affection be renewed between the couple during their year of patience, the marriage tie is valid, and what is commanded in the Book of God must be observed; but once the year of patience hath been completed and that which is decreed by God taketh place, a further period of waiting is not required. Sexual intercourse between husb and and wife is forbidden during their year of patience, and whoso committeth this act must seek God's Forgiveness, and, as a punishment, render to the House of Justice a fine of nineteen mithqals of gold.
12. QUESTION: Should antipathy develop between a couple after the Marriage Verses have been read and the dowry paid, may divorce take place without observance of the year of patience?
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However, to conceal and Forgive the matter will, in the sight of God, merit a bounteous reward.
48. QUESTION: "A feast hath been enjoined upon you..." Is this obligatory or not?
1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
it in his pure flame, her sins are Forgiven her and she departs in
peace. From now on the women are averse even to letting men pass
1.03 - THE EARTH IN ITS EARLY STAGES, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
1 1 crust I shall be Forgiven (as later in the case or " orthogenesis ') tor using
this term in so generalised a sense, i.e. to include (as well as thesenct polymerisa-
1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
Amazed by the wisdom of that holy man, I asked him when we were alone: Why did you make such an extraordinary show? That true physician replied: For two reasons: firstly, in order to deliver the penitent himself from future shame by present shame; and it really did that, Brother John. For he did not rise from the floor until he was granted remission of all his sins. And do not doubt this, for one of the brethren who was there confided to me, saying: I saw someone terrible holding a pen and writing-tablet, and as the prostrate man told each sin, he crossed it out with a pen. And this is likely, for it says: I said, I will confess against myself my sin to the Lord; and Thou hast Forgiven the wickedness of my heart.1 Secondly, because there are others in the brotherhood who have unconfessed sins, and I want to induce them to confess too, for without this no one will obtain Forgiveness.
I saw much else too that was admirable and worth remembering with that ever-memorable pastor and his flock. And a large part of it I shall try to bring to your knowledge also. For I stayed a considerable time with him, following their manner of life, and was greatly astonished to see how those earth-dwellers were imitating the heavenly beings.
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Once one of the brothers was expelled by him for slandering his neighbour to him and calling him a windbag and gossip. The expelled man did not leave the gates of the monastery for a whole week, begging to be granted entry and Forgiveness. When that lover of souls learnt of this, and heard that this brother had had nothing to eat for six days, he told him: If you have a resolute desire to live in the monastery, I will degrade you to the rank of a penitent. And when the penitent gladly accepted this, the pastor ordered him to be taken to the separate monastery for those who were mourning over their falls. And that was done. But since we have mentioned that monastery, I shall now speak about it briefly.
At a distance of a mile from the great monastery was a place called the prison, deprived of every comfort. There neither smoke, nor wine, nor oil in the food, nor anything else could ever be seen but only bread and light vegetables. Here the pastor shut up, without permission to go out, those who fell into sin after entering the brotherhood; and not all together, but each in a separate and special cell, or at most in pairs. And he kept them there until the Lord gave him assurance of the amendment of each one. Over them he placed the sub-prior, a great man called Isaac, who required of those entrusted to him almost unceasing prayer. And to prevent despondency they had a large quantity of palm leaves.3 Such is the life, such is the rule, such is the conduct of those who truly seek the face of the God of Jacob!4
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When a foolish person is accused or shouted at he is wounded by it and tries to contradict, or at once makes an apology to his accuser, not out of humility but in order to stop the accusations. But when you are being ridiculed, be silent, and receive with patience these spiritual cauterizations, or rather, purifying flames. And when the doctor has finished, then ask his Forgiveness. For while he is angry perhaps he will not accept your apology.
While struggling against all the passions, let us who are in communities struggle every hour, especially against these two: greed of stomach and irritability. For in a community there is plenty of food for these passions.
1.04 - On Knowledge of the Future World., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
Let those, then, who wish to be saved from the torments of the grave, be earnest in cutting off the ties of the world; and let them acquire a habit of being satisfied with just that which is of actual necessity. Be satisfied for example with that amount of food and drink which is necessary to give strength for devotional exercises; be satisfied with the amount of clothing necessary to protect the body from cold and heat; and so in everything else. If a man cannot purify his heart from attachment to the world let him at least be assiduous in devotion and in calling upon God, and show a preference for cultivating an intimacy with the love of God. Let him look with fear and dread upon trust in the world, and weaken and relax the demands of sense by strict obedience to the law. If notwithstanding he should prefer to yield to the animal soul and to trust in this world, let him prepare himself to experience the torment of the grave and the terrors of the future world. And may the grace and mercy of God which embrace all men, and his pardon and Forgiveness which extend to rich and poor, to great and small, reach and save him !
The miterizl torments of the grave, O seeker after the divine mysteries, are those which are addressed to the body and through the body to the spirit. Spiritual torments are those which reach the spirit only. The language of God, "It is the fire of God, the lighted fire which shall reach the hearts of the reprobates," refers to spiritual torments which affect the heart. The spiritual hell then is of three kinds. The first is the fire of separation from the [88] lusts of the world; the second is the fire of shame, ignominy and reproach; and the third is the fire of exclusion from the beauty of the one Lord. These fires only burn the soul and do not touch the body.
1.04 - The Qabalah The Best Training for Memory, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
If you only knew what I am grappling with in the Yi King! the order of the sixty-four hexagrams. I am convinced that it is extremely significant, that it implies a sublime system of philosophy. I've got far enough to be absolutely sure that there is a necessary rhythm; and it's killing me by millimetres, finding out why each pair succeeds the last. Forgive these tears!
But our Magical Alphabet is primarily not letters, but figures, not sounds but mathematical ideas. Sir Humphrey Davy, coming out of his famous illumination (with some help from Nitrous Oxide he got in) exclaimed: The Universe is composed solely of ideas. We, analyzing this a little, say: The Universe is a mathematical expression.
1.05 - BOOK THE FIFTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Let him restore her, I'll the crime Forgive;
My child, tho' ravish'd, I'd with joy receive.
1.05 - On painstaking and true repentance which constitute the life of the holy convicts; and about the prison., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
Others sat thinking and looking on the ground, swaying their heads unceasingly, and roaring and moaning like lions from their inmost heart to their teeth. And some were praying in good hope and asking for complete Forgiveness. Others out of unspeakable humility condemned themselves as unworthy of Forgiveness, and would cry out that it was not within their power to justify themselves before God. Some begged the Lord that they be punished here, and receive mercy in the next world. Others, crushed by the weight of their conscience, would say in all sincerity: Spare us from future punishment, even though we are not worthy to be granted the Kingdom. And that will satisfy us.
I saw there humble and contrite souls depressed by the weight of their burden. Their voices and outcries to God would have moved the very stones to compassion. For, casting their gaze to the earth they would say: We know, we know that in all justice we deserve every punishment and torment. For how could we make satisfaction for the multitude of our debts even if we were to summon the whole world to weep for us? But this is our only petition, this our prayer, this our supplication, that He may not rebuke us in anger, nor chasten us in His wrath.1 Punish, but spare! It is sufficient for us if Thou deliverest us from Thy great threat, from the unknown and hidden torments. For we dare not ask for complete Forgivenesshow could we? For we have not kept our vow but have defiled it, even Thy past loving kindness and Forgiveness.
And there, friends, the fulfilment of the words of David could be clearly seen, men enduring hardship and bowed down to the end of their life, going about with a sad countenance all day long, the wounds in their body stinking of rottenness,2 and they took no notice of them, and they forgot to eat their bread, and they mingled their drink of water with weeping; they ate dust and ashes with their bread, and their bones cleaved to their flesh, and were withered like grass.3 You could hear from them nothing but the words: Woe, woe! Alas, alas! It is just, it is just! Spare us, spare us O Lord. Some were saying: Have mercy, have mercy, and others still more plaintively: Forgive, O Lord; Forgive if it is possible.
One could see how the tongues of some of them were parched and hung out of their mouths like a dogs. Some chastised themselves in the scorching sun, others tormented themselves in the cold. Some, having tasted a little water so as not to die of thirst, stopped drinking; others having nibbled a little bread, flung the rest of it away, and said that they were unworthy of being fed like human beings, since they had behaved like beasts.
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O Judge, open! We have shut ourselves out by our sins. Open to us. Others would say: Only show the light of Thy face, and we shall be saved.1 Another again: Give light to the humble sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death;2 and another: Let Thy mercies speedily forestall us, O Lord;3 we have perished, we have despaired; for we have utterly fallen away. Some would say: Will the Lord ever again show the light of His face to us?4 Others: Will our soul pass through the insupportable debt?5 Another said: Will the Lord at last be moved to mercy for us?6 Shall we ever hear Him say to us who are in unending bonds, Come forth,7 and to us who are in the hell of repentance, Be Forgiven? I our cry reached the ears of the Lord?
They all used to sit with the sight of death unceasingly before their eyes and say: How will it be with us? What will be our sentence? What kind of end shall we have? Will there be a reprieve for us? Will there be Forgiveness for those in darkness, the humble, the convicted? Is our prayer powerful enough to enter before the Lord? Or has it not been deservedly rejected, deemed worthless and shameful? And if it did reach the Lord, how much of the Divine favour would it gain there? What success would it have? What profit would it bring? What power would it have? Coming from foul lips and bodies, it would not have great power. And so, would it reconcile us with the Judge completely or only in partonly to the extent of half our sores? Because they really are tremendous, calling for much sweat and labour. Have our guardian angels drawn nearer to us, or are they still far from us? And until they come nearer to us, all our labours are futile and useless. For our prayer has not the power of access nor the wings of purity to reach the Lord unless our angels approach us and take it and bring it to the Lord.
Some often expressed their doubts to each other and said: Are we accomplishing anything brothers? Are we obtaining our requests? Will the Lord accept us again? Will He open to us? And to this others would reply: Who knows, as our brothers the Ninevites said, if God will repent8 and will deliver us even from great punishment? In any case, let us do our part. And if He opens the door, well and good. And if not, blessed is the Lord God who in His justice has closed the door to us. At least let us persist in knocking at the door till the end of our life. Perhaps He will open to us for our great assiduity and importunity.9 Therefore they exhorted one another, saying: Let us run, brothers, let us run. For we need to run, and to run hard, because we have fallen behind our holy company. Let us run, and not spare this our foul and wicked flesh, but let us kill it as it has killed us.
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Most terrible and pitiful was the sight of their last hour. When his fellow-defaulters learnt that one of their number was ready to precede them by finishing his course, they gathered round him while his mind was still active and with thirst, with tears, with love, with a tender look and sad voice, shaking their heads, they would ask the dying man, and would say to him, burning with compassion: How are you, brother and fellow criminal? What will you say? What do you hope? What do you expect? Have you accomplished what you sought with such labour or not? Has the door been opened to you, or are you still under judgment? Have you attained your object, or not yet? Have you received any sort of assurance, or is your hope still uncertain? Have you obtained freedom, or is your thought clouded with doubt? Have you felt any enlightenment in your heart or is it still dark and ashamed? Has any inner voice said: Behold thou art made whole,1 or: Thy sins are Forgiven thee, 2or: Thy faith has saved thee?3 Or, have you heard a voice like this: Let the sinners be turned into hell,4 and: Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness,5 and again: Let the wicked man be removed that he may not see the glory of the Lord?6 What, quite simply, can you say, brother? Tell us, we beg you, that we too may know in what state we shall be. For your time is already closed, and you will never find another opportunity. To this some of the dying would reply: Blessed is God who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me. 7Others again: Blessed is the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth.8 Others said dolefully: Will our soul pass through the impassable water9 of the spirits of the air?not having complete confidence, but looking to see what would happen in that rendering of accounts. Others still more dolefully would answer and say: Woe to the soul that has not kept its vow intact! In this hour, and in this only, it will know what is prepared for it.
But when I had seen and heard all this among them, I nearly despaired of myself, seeing my own indifference and comparing it with their suffering. For what a place and habitation theirs was! All dark, reeking, filthy and squalid. It was rightly called the prison and house of convicts. The very sight of the place was sufficient to teach all penitence and mourning. But what is hard and intolerable for others becomes easy and acceptable for those who have fallen away from virtue and spiritual riches. For the soul that has lost its former confidence; that has lost hope of dispassion; that has broken the seal of chastity; that has allowed its treasury of gifts to be robbed; that has become a stranger to divine consolation; that has rejected the commandment of the Lord; that has extinguished the beautiful fire of spiritual10 tears, and is wounded and pierced with sorrow by the remembrance of this will not only undertake the above-mentioned labours with all readiness, but will even devoutly resolve to kill itself
1.05 - Splitting of the Spirit, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
I: Forgive me, perhaps Im hard of hearing, perhaps I misinterpret you, perhaps I ensnare myself in self-deceit and monkey business, and I am a rascal grinning at myself in a mirror, a fool in my own madhouse. Perhaps you stumble over folly?
My soul: You delude yourself, you do not deceive me. Your words are lies to you, not me.
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be Forgiven unto men: but the
blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be Forgiven unto men.
And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be Forgiven him: but whosover
speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be Forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world
to come. (Matthew 12:31-32).
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Forgive me! Please Forgive me! I wont do it again.
The wind carries her moan to me, just as if she were moaning next to my ear. The citizen chief at the
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and I wont Forgive them because of you. But if you are guilty I wont write you any more and will
hate you. And the mother was stricken by remorse in her damp gravelike cell with its dim little lamp:
1.06 - BOOK THE SIXTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
The Goddess will Forgive. At this the maid,
With passion fir'd, her gliding shuttle stay'd;
1.06 - On remembrance of death., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
And I cannot be silent about the story of Hesychius the Horebite. He passed his life in complete negligence, without paying the least attention to his soul. Then he became extremely ill, and for an hour he left his body. And when he came to himself he begged us all to leave him immediately. And he built up the door of his cell, and he stayed in it for twelve years without ever uttering a word to anyone, and without eating anything but bread and water. And, always remaining motionless, he was so wrapt in spirit in what he had seen in his ecstasy that he never changed his place but was always as if out of his mind, and silently shed hot tears. But when he was about to die, we broke open the door and went in, and after many questions this alone was all we heard from him: Forgive me! No one who has acquired the remembrance of death will ever be able to sin. We were amazed to see that one who had before been so negligent was so suddenly transfigured by this blessed change and transformation. We reverently buried him in the cemetery near the fort1 and after some days we looked for his holy relics, but did not find them. So by his true and praiseworthy repentance the Lord showed us that even after long negligence He accepts those who desire to amend.
Just as some declare that the abyss is infinite, for they call it a bottomless place, so the thought of death brings chastity and activity to a state of incorruption. The above-mentioned saint confirms the truth of what has been said. For such men, unceasingly adding fear to fear, do not stop until the very strength of their bones is spent.
1.06 - Psychic Education, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When a child makes a mistake, one must see that he confesses it to the teacher or the guardian spontaneously and frankly; and when he has confessed, he should be made to understand with kindness and affection what was wrong in the movement and precaution should be taken to see that he does not repeat it. A fault confessed must be Forgiven. The child should be encouraged to think of wrong impulses not as sins or offences but as symptoms of a curable disease, alterable by a steady and sustained effort of the will, - falsehood being rejected and replaced by truth, fear by courage, selfishness by sacrifice, attachment by renunciation and malice by love.
Due care should be taken to see that unformed virtues are not rejected as faults. The wildness and recklessness of many young natures are only the over-flowing of excessive strength, greatness and nobility. They should be purified and not discouraged.
1.07 - The Process of Evolution, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Sayama is unseasonable and would be fruitless when a force, quality or tendency is in its infancy or vigour, before it has had the enjoyment and full activity which is its due. When once a thing is born it must have its youth, growth, enjoyment, life and final decay and death; when once an impetus has been given by Prakriti to her creation, she insists that the velocity shall spend itself by natural exhaustion before it shall cease. To arrest the growth or speed unseasonably by force is nigraha, which can be effective for a time but not in perpetuity. It is said in the Gita that all things are ruled by their nature, to their nature they return and nigraha or repression is fruitless. What happens then is that the thing untimely slain by violence is not really dead, but withdraws for a time into the Prakriti which sent it forth, gathers an immense force and returns with extraordinary violence ravening for the rightful enjoyment which it was denied. We see this in the attempts we make to get rid of our evil saskras or associations when we first tread the path of Yoga. If anger is a powerful element in our nature, we may put it down for a time by sheer force and call it self-control, but eventually unsatisfied Nature will get the better of us and the passion return upon us with astonishing force at an unexpected moment. There are only two ways by which we can effectively get the better of the passion which seeks to enslave us. One is by substitution, replacing it whenever it rises by the opposite quality, anger by thoughts of Forgiveness, love or forbearance, lust by meditation on purity, pride by thoughts of humility and our own defects or nothingness; this is the method of Rajayoga, but it is a difficult, slow and uncertain method; for both the ancient traditions and the modern experience of Yoga show that men who had attained for long years the highest self-mastery have been suddenly surprised by a violent return of the thing they thought dead or for ever subject. Still this substitution, slow though it be, is one of the commonest methods of Nature and it is largely by this means, often unconsciously or half-consciously used, that the character of a man changes and develops from life to life or even in the bounds of a single lifetime. It does not destroy things in their seed and the seed which is not reduced to ashes by Yoga is always capable of sprouting again and growing into the complete and mighty tree. The second method is to give bhoga or enjoyment to the passion so as to get rid of it quickly. When it is satiated and surfeited by excessive enjoyment, it becomes weak and spent and a reaction ensues which establishes for a time the opposite force, tendency or quality. If that moment is seized by the Yogin for nigraha, the nigraha so repeated at every suitable opportunity becomes so far effective as to reduce the strength and vitality of the vtti sufficiently for the application of the final sayama. This method of enjoyment and reaction is also a favourite and universal method of Nature, but it is never complete in itself and, if applied to permanent forces or qualities, tends to establish a see-saw of opposite tendencies, extremely useful to the operations of Prakriti but from the point of view of self-mastery useless and inconclusive. It is only when this method is followed up by the use of sayama that it becomes effective. The Yogin regards the vtti merely as a play of Nature with which he is not concerned and of which he is merely the spectator; the anger, lust or pride is not his, it is the universal Mothers and she works it and stills it for her own purposes. When, however, the vtti is strong, mastering and unspent, this attitude cannot be maintained in sincerity and to try to hold it intellectually without sincerely feeling it is mithycra, false discipline or hypocrisy. It is only when it is somewhat exhausted by repeated enjoyment and coercion that Prakriti or Nature at the comm and of the soul or Purusha can really deal with her own creation. She deals with it first by vairgya in its crudest form of disgust, but this is too violent a feeling to be permanent; yet it leaves its mark behind in a deep-seated wish to be rid of its cause, which survives the return and temporary reign of the passion. Afterwards its return is viewed with impatience but without any acute feeling of intolerance. Finally supreme indifference or udsnat is gained and the final going out of the tendency by the ordinary process of Nature is watched in the true spirit of the sayam who has the knowledge that he is the witnessing soul and has only to dissociate himself from a phenomenon for it to cease. The highest stage leads either to mukti in the form of laya or disappearance, the vtti vanishing altogether and for good, or else to another kind of freedom when the soul knows that it is Gods ll and leaves it to Him whether He shall throw out the tendency or use it for His own purposes. This is the attitude of the Karmayogin who puts himself in Gods hands and does work for His sake only, knowing that it is Gods force that works in him. The result of that attitude of self-surrender is that the Lord of all takes charge and according to the promise of the Gita delivers His servant and lover from all sin and evil, the vttis working in the bodily machine without affecting the soul and working only when He raises them up for His purposes. This is nirliptat, the state of absolute freedom within the ll.
The law is the same for the mass as for the individual. The process of human evolution has been seen by the eye of inspired observation to be that of working out the tiger and the ape. The forces of cruelty, lust, mischievous destruction, pain-giving, folly, brutality, ignorance were once rampant in humanity, they had full enjoyment; then by the growth of religion and philosophy they began in periods of satiety such as the beginning of the Christian era in Europe to be partly replaced, partly put under control. As is the law of such things, they have always reverted again with greater or less virulence and sought with more or less success to re-establish themselves. Finally in the nineteenth century it seemed for a time as if some of these forces had, for a time at least, exhausted themselves and the hour for sayama and gradual dismissal from the evolution had really arrived. Such hopes always recur and in the end they are likely to bring about their own fulfilment, but before that happens another recoil is inevitable. We see plenty of signs of it in the reeling back into the beast which is in progress in Europe and America behind the fair outside of Science, progress, civilisation and humanitarianism, and we are likely to see more signs of it in the era that is coming upon us. A similar law holds in politics and society. The political evolution of the human race follows certain lines of which the most recent formula has been given in the watchwords of the French Revolution, freedom, equality and brotherhood. But the forces of the old world, the forces of despotism, the forces of traditional privilege and selfish exploitation, the forces of unfraternal strife and passionate self-regarding competition are always struggling to reseat themselves on the thrones of the earth. A determined movement of reaction is evident in many parts of the world and nowhere perhaps more than in England which was once one of the self-styled champions of progress and liberty. The attempt to go back to the old spirit is one of those necessary returns without which it cannot be so utterly exhausted as to be blotted out from the evolution. It rises only to be defeated and crushed again. On the other hand the force of the democratic tendency is not a force which is spent but one which has not yet arrived, not a force which has had the greater part of its enjoyment but one which is still vigorous, unsatisfied and eager for fulfilment. Every attempt to coerce it in the past reacted eventually on the coercing force and brought back the democratic spirit fierce, hungry and unsatisfied, joining to its fair motto of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity the terrible addition or Death. It is not likely that the immediate future of the democratic tendency will satisfy the utmost dreams of the lover of liberty who seeks an anarchist freedom, or of the lover of equality who tries to establish a socialistic dead level, or of the lover of fraternity who dreams of a world-embracing communism. But some harmonisation of this great ideal is undoubtedly the immediate future of the human race. On the old forces of despotism, inequality and unbridled competition, after they have been once more overthrown, a process of gradual sayama will be performed by which what has remained of them will be regarded as the disappearing vestiges of a dead reality and without any further violent coercion be transformed slowly and steadily out of existence.
1.08 - Attendants, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Purani was already known to Sri Aurobindo from the twenties and had enjoyed his closeness during those years. It was thus with him a resumption or the old relation after a lapse of many years. Compared with him, we were youngsters and had the passport of entry by virtue of our medical profession, but some individual contact was established with the Master through correspondence so that he knew each one of us by name at least. In my own case, perhaps, I can go a little further. Had our written contact not been so intimate and various, I do not know if I could have been so free with him and of use to him in diverse ways. I have always wondered at and failed to probe the mystery of that intimacy. I have even imagined that Sri Aurobindo must have seen in his timeless vision that one day this humble self might be physically of some service to him. He prepared me for that eventual day, initiated me into love for poetry that I might at least transcribe his epic Savitri from his dictation, gave some intellectual training that I might be useful to him in his literary work. He even made me familiar with his often baffling handwriting so that I could read his manuscripts and decipher them. These may be all weavings of fancy, but if I have been of any help in his intellectual pursuits, most of it was undoubtedly due to his previous coaching through voluminous letters, literary training and above all, his patient and persuasive manner. This long preparation had put out all fear of his awe-inspiring personality and made my approach to him free and almost unconventional, sometimes leading to an unpardonable abuse of that unstinted freedom. Things went on like a song and life would have made itself a transformed vision of the Supreme, but alas, after the novelty of the soul-contact had worn off, the other face of our nature, the subconscient, came to light and the pressure of the physical nearness began to tell. Work was no longer a joyous offering, but a duty; service alone was not a sufficient reward, it needed more concrete spiritual touches, failing which other lesser joys and satisfactions were regarded as legitimate recompense. My old maladies doubt and depression renewed their hold and transfused into the act of service their bitter stuff. The Master could at once feel the vibration, even though no word was uttered by the lips. Quite often by a look, by a quiet pressure of hands, he would communicate his understanding sympathy and the affliction would withdraw for a time. Never have I seen any displeasure or loss of temper at my delinquency, no harsh word of disapproval though he was quite aware of all inner and outer movements. A largeness, compassionate Forgiveness and divine consideration have made life's stream flow through an apparently trackless solitary journey towards the ultimate vastness.
I do not know if I have the right to speak of my other colleagues, but of Champaklal particularly I must write a few heart-felt words, for his spirit of service has left an indelible impression on my soul and taught me what true service is. Let me prelude it with the Mother's opinion about him when she introduced him to Andre, her son, in 1949. She said with great warmth: "He came here when he was very young. I taught him many kinds of work. He has himself taken up Sri Aurobindo's personal service. He looks into practically everything with regard to Sri Aurobindo. He is extremely careful, meticulous and very particular about details. He has no regular time for food; he takes it when he can. So it is with his sleep. That is why he cannot join the sports activities. He works with joy and devotion. He collects all our little things and keeps them with great care our clothes, nails, hair, etc."
1.08 - BOOK THE EIGHTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Ah! whither am I hurry'd? Ah! Forgive,
Ye shades, and let your sister's issue live;
1.08 - ON THE TREE ON THE MOUNTAINSIDE, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
I climb: no step Forgives me that. When I am at the
top I always find myself alone. Nobody speaks to me;
1.08 - THE MASTERS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
KEDR: "It is said in the Bhagavata that Vysa asked God's Forgiveness for his three transgressions. He said: 'O Lord, Thou art formless, but I have thought of Thee in my meditation as endowed with form; Thou art beyond speech, but I have sung Thee hymns; Thou art the All-pervading Spirit, but I have made pilgrimages to sacred places.
Be gracious, O Lord, and Forgive these three transgressions of mine.'"
MASTER: "Yes, God has form and He is formless too. Further, He is beyond both form and formlessness. No one can limit Him."
1.09 - ADVICE TO THE BRAHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Who, among all my friends, Forgives my failings, Bringing me comfort for my grief,
Soothing my spirit in its terror?
1.09 - Legend of Lakshmi, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
Descending hastily from his elephant, Mahendra endeavoured to appease the sinless Durvāsas: but to the excuses and prostrations of the thousand-eyed, the Muni answered, "I am not of a compassionate heart, nor is Forgiveness congenial to my nature. Other Munis may relent; but know me, Śakra, to be Durvāsas. Thou hast in vain been rendered insolent by Gautama and others; for know me, Indra, to be Durvāsas, whose nature is a stranger to remorse. Thou hast been flattered by Vaśiṣṭha and other tender-hearted saints, whose loud praises (lave made thee so arrogant, that thou hast insulted me. But who is there in the universe that can behold my countenance, dark with frowns, and surrounded by my blazing hair, and not tremble? What need of words? I will not Forgive, whatever semblance of humility thou mayest assume."
Having thus spoken, the Brahman went his way; and the king of the gods, remounting his elephant, returned to his capital Amarāvati. Thenceforward, Maitreya, the three worlds and Śakra lost their vigour, and all vegetable products, plants, and herbs were withered and died; sacrifices were no longer offered; devout exercises no longer practised; men were no more addicted to charity, or any moral or religious obligation; all beings became devoid of steadiness[4]; all the faculties of sense were obstructed by cupidity; and men's desires were excited by frivolous objects. Where there is energy, there is prosperity; and upon prosperity energy depends. How can those abandoned by prosperity be possessed of energy; and without energy, where is excellence? Without excellence there can be no vigour nor heroism amongst men: he who has neither courage nor strength, will be spurned by all: and he who is universally treated with disgrace, must suffer abasement of his intellectual faculties.
1.09 - On remembrance of wrongs., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
2 The Prayer of Jesus used in the Orthodox Church is Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me. What is said in this paragraph applies equally to the Lords Prayer, especially the clause Forgive us our debts as we Forgive our debtors.
1. The holy virtues are like Jacobs ladder, and the unholy vices are like the chains that fell from the chief Apostle Peter. For the virtues, leading from one to another, bear him who chooses them up to Heaven; but the vices by their nature beget and stifle one another. And as we have just heard senseless anger calling remembrance of wrongs its own offspring, it is appropriate that we should now say something about this.
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15. Worms grow in a rotten tree, and malice finds a place in falsely meek and silent people. He who has cast it out has found Forgiveness, but he who sticks to it is deprived of mercy.
16. Some, for the sake of Forgiveness, give themselves up to labours and struggles, but a man who is forgetful of wrongs excels them. If you Forgive quickly, then you will be generously Forgiven.3
17. The forgetting of wrongs is a sign of true repentance. But he who dwells on them and thinks that he is repenting is like a man who thinks he is running while he is really asleep.
18. I have seen resentful people recommend Forgiveness to others. Yes, and being put to shame by their own words, they rid themselves of the passion.
19. Let no one regard dark spite as a harmless passion, for it often manages to reach out even to spiritual men.
1.09 - SKIRMISHES IN A WAY WITH THE AGE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
of sympathy, we are absurdly just we Forgive everything. Precisely on
that account we should be severe with ourselves; for that very reason
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never Forgive Christianity for having so abused the weakness of the
dying man as to do violence to his conscience, or for having used
1.09 - The Worship of Trees, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
ask a fine, sound tree to Forgive them before they cut it down. So
in Jarkino the woodman craves pardon of the tree he fells. Before
1.10 - BOOK THE TENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
With lifted hands, he cry'd, Forgive the tongue
Which durst, ye youths, your well-tim'd courage wrong.
1.10 - On slander or calumny., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
Do not regard the feelings of a person who speaks to you about his neighbour disparagingly, but rather say to him: Stop, brother! I fall into graver sins every day, so how can I criticize him? In this way you will achieve two things: you will heal yourself and your neighbour with one plaster. This is one of the shortest ways to the Forgiveness of sins; I mean, not to judge. Judge not, that you be not judged.2
Fire and water are incompatible; and so is judging others in one who wants to repent. If you see someone falling into sin at the very moment of his death, even then do not judge him, because the Divine judgment is hidden from men. Some have fallen openly into great sins, but they have done greater good deeds in secret; so their critics were tricked, getting smoke instead of the sun.
1.10 - THE NEIGHBORS HOUSE, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
God Forgive my husband, yet he
Hasn't done his duty by me!
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The dear, good man! Long since was he Forgiven.
MEPHISTOPHELES
1.11 - The Soul or the Astral Body, #Initiation Into Hermetics, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
The melancholic temper in its active form: respectability, modesty, compassion, devotion, seriousness, docility, fervour, cordiality, comprehension, meditation, calmness, quick to give ones confidence, Forgiveness, tenderness, and so on. In the negative form: indifference, depression, apathy, shyness, laziness, etc.
The phlegmatic temper in its active form: respectability, reputation, endurance, consideration, resolution, firmness, seriousness, scrupulousness, thoroughness, concentration, sobriety, punctuality, reservedness, objectivity, infallibility, responsibility, reliability, circumspection, resistance, self-assurance, and so on. In the negative form: insipidity, unscrupulousness, misanthropy, dullness, tardiness, laziness, unreliability, laconism, and so on.
1.12 - ON THE FLIES OF THE MARKETPLACE, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
They punish you for all your virtues. They Forgive
you entirely-your mistakes.
1.12 - THE FESTIVAL AT PNIHTI, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Sri Ramakrishna then went to Adhar's house. After dusk he sang and danced in Adhar's drawing-room. M., Rkhl , and other devotees were present. After the music he sat down, still in an ecstatic mood. He said to Rkhl: "This religious fervour is not like rain in the rainy season, which comes in torrents and goes in torrents. It is like an image of iva that has not been set up by human hands but is a natural one that has sprung up, as it were, from the bowels of the earth. The other day you left Dakshineswar in a temper. I prayed to the Divine Mother to Forgive you."
The Master was still in an abstracted mood and said to Adhar, "My son, meditate on the Deity whose name you chanted." With these words he touched Adhar's tongue with his finger and wrote something on it. Did the Master thereby impart spirituality to Adhar?
1.13 - BOOK THE THIRTEENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Good Heav'n Forgive me for so bad a deed!
If still he will persist, and urge the strife,
1.13 - SALVATION, DELIVERANCE, ENLIGHTENMENT, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
In the theologies of the various religions, salvation is also regarded as a deliverance out of folly, evil and misery into happiness, goodness and wisdom. But political and economic means are held to be subsidiary to the cultivation of personal holiness, to the acquiring of personal merit and to the maintenance of personal faith in some divine principle or person having power, in one way or another, to Forgive and sanctify the individual soul. Moreover the end to be achieved is not regarded as existing in some Utopian future period, beginning, say, in the twenty-second century or perhaps even a little earlier, if our favourite politicians remain in power and make the right laws; the end exists in heaven. This last phrase has two very different meanings. For what is probably the majority of those who profess the great historical religions, it signifies and has always signified a happy posthumous condition of indefinite personal survival, conceived of as a reward for good behaviour and correct belief and a compensation for the miseries inseparable from life in a body. But for those who, within the various religious traditions, have accepted the Perennial Philosophy as a theory and have done their best to live it out in practice, heaven is something else. They aspire to be delivered out of separate selfhood in time and into eternity as realized in the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground. Since the Ground can and ought to be unitively known in the present life (whose ultimate end and purpose is nothing but this knowledge), heaven is not an exclusively posthumous condition. He only is completely saved who is delivered here and now. As to the means to salvation, these are simultaneously ethical, intellectual and spiritual and have been summed up with admirable clarity and economy in the Buddhas Eightfold Path. Complete deliverance is conditional on the following: first, Right Belief in the all too obvious truth that the cause of pain and evil is craving for separative, ego-centred existence, with its corollary that there can be no deliverance from evil, whether personal or collective, except by getting rid of such craving and the obsession of I, me, mine"; second, Right Will, the will to deliver oneself and others; third, Right Speech, directed by compassion and charity towards all sentient beings; fourth, Right Action, with the aim of creating and maintaining peace and good will; fifth, Right Means of Livelihood, or the choice only of such professions as are not harmful, in their exercise, to any human being or, if possible, any living creature; sixth, Right Effort towards Self-control; seventh, Right Attention or Recollectedness, to be practised in all the circumstances of life, so that we may never do evil by mere thoughtlessness, because we know not what we do"; and, eighth, Right Contemplation, the unitive knowledge of the Ground, to which recollectedness and the ethical self-naughting prescribed in the first six branches of the Path give access. Such then are the means which it is within the power of the human being to employ in order to achieve mans final end and be saved. Of the means which are employed by the divine Ground for helping human beings to reach their goal, the Buddha of the Pali scriptures (a teacher whose dislike of footless questions is no less intense than that of the severest experimental physicist of the twentieth century) declines to speak. All he is prepared to talk about is sorrow and the ending of sorrow the huge brute fact of pain and evil and the other, no less empirical fact that there is a method, by which the individual can free himself from evil and do something to diminish the sum of evil in the world around him. It is only in Mahayana Buddhism that the mysteries of grace are discussed with anything like the fulness of treatment accorded to the subject in the speculations of Hindu and especially Christian theology. The primitive, Hinayana teaching on deliverance is simply an elaboration of the Buddhas last recorded words: Decay is inherent in all component things. Work out your own salvation with diligence. As in the well-known passage quoted below, all the stress is upon personal effort.
Therefore, Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the Truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, shall not look for refuge to anyone beside themselves it is they who shall reach the very topmost Height. But they must be anxious to learn.
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In what does salvation consist? Not in any historic faith or knowledge of anything absent or distant, not in any variety of restraints, rules and methods of practising virtue, not in any formality of opinion about faith and works, repentance, Forgiveness of sins, or justification and sanctification, not in any truth or righteousness that you can have from yourself, from the best of men and books, but solely and wholly from the life of God, or Christ of God, quickened and born again in you, in other words in the restoration and perfect union of the first twofold life in humanity.
William Law
1.16 - MARTHAS GARDEN, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
If I do him wrong, may God Forgive!
FAUST
1.16 - On Concentration, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
(I know I'm a poor contemptible Lowbrow; but I refuse to be ashamed for finding Kipling's If and Henley's Don't remember-the title; they may not be poetry but they are honest food and damned good beer for the plebeian wayfarer. It was such manhood, not the left-wing high-brow Bloomsbury sissies, that kept London through the blitz. Pray Forgive the digression!)
There is only one method to adopt in such circumstances as those of the Aspirant to Magick and Yoga: the method of Science. Trial and error. You must observe. That implies, first of all, that you must learn to observe. And you must record your observations. No circumstance of life is, or can be irrelevant. "He that is not with me is against me." In all these letters you will find only two things: either I tell you what is bad for you, or what is good for you. But I am not you; I don't know every detail of your life, every trick of your thought. You must do ninety percent of the work for yourself. Whether it is love, or your daily avocation, or diet, or friends, or amusement, or anything else, you must find out what helps you to your True Will and what hinders; cherish the one and eschew the other.
1.16 - PRAYER, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
By considering yourself as an advocate with God for your neighbours and acquaintances, you would never find it hard to be at peace with them yourself. It would be easy for you to bear with and Forgive those, for whom you particularly implored the divine mercy and Forgiveness.
William Law
1.17 - ON THE WAY OF THE CREATOR, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
them and yet passed by: that they will never Forgive.
You pass over and beyond them: but the higher you
1.18 - M. AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
GOSWAMI: "Besides, it is a sin to criticize anyone, especially a devotee of God. All sins may be Forgiven, but not the sin of criticizing a devotee."
MASTER: "But this idea of sin does not by any means affect all. For instance, the Isvarakotis, such as Incarnations of God, are above sin. Sri Chaitanya is an example.
1.19 - NIGHT, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
And so, though even God Forgive,
On earth a damned existence live!
1.20 - Tabooed Persons, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
slain man is lamented and his Forgiveness is entreated. "Be not
angry," they say, "because your head is here with us; had we been
1.20 - Talismans - The Lamen - The Pantacle, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Then there are the Elemental Tablets of Sir Edward Kelly and Dr. John Dee. From these you can extract a square to perform almost any conceivable operation, if you understand the virtue of the various symbols which they manifest. They are actually an expansion of the Tarot. (Obviously, the Tarot itself as a whole is a universal Pantacle Forgive the pleonasm! Each card, especially is this true of the Trumps, is a talisman; and the whole may also be considered as the Lamen of Mercury. It is evidently an Idea far too vast for any human mind to comprehend in its entirety. For it is "the Wisdom whereby He created the worlds.")
The decisive advantage of this system is not that its variety makes it so adaptable to our needs, but that we already posses the Invocations necessary to call forth the Energies required. What is perhaps still more to the point, they work without putting the Magician to such severe toil and exertion as is needed when he has to write them out from his own ingenium. Yes! This is weakness on my part, and I am very naughty to encourage you to shirk the hardest path.
1.21 - ON FREE DEATH, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
linger a little on the earth: Forgive me for that.
Thus spoke Zarathustra.
1.22 - EMOTIONALISM, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Came she (Mary Magdalene) down from the height of her desire for God into the depth of her sinful life, and searched in the foul stinking fen and dunghill of her soul? Nay, surely she did not do so. And why? Because God let her know by His grace in her soul that she should never so bring it about. For so might she sooner have raised in herself an ableness to have often sinned than have purchased by that work any plain Forgiveness of all her sins.
The Cloud of Unknowing
1.23 - DREARY DAY, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
under the eyes of the Eternal Forgiver, did not expiate the
guilt of all others! The misery of this single one pierces to the
1.23 - THE MIRACULOUS, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
The miracles which at present are in greatest demand, and of which there is the steadest supply, are those of psychic healing. In what circumstances and to what extent the power of psychic healing should be used has been clearly indicated in the Gospel: Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be Forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed and walk? If one can Forgive sins, one can safely use the gift of healing. But the forgiving of sins is possible, in its fulness, only to those who speak with authority, in virtue of being selfless channels of the divine Spirit. To these theocentric saints the ordinary, unregenerate human being reacts with a mixture of love and awelonging to be close to them and yet constrained by their very holiness to say, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man. Such holiness makes holy to the extent that the sins of those who approach it are Forgiven and they are enabled to make a new start, to face the consequences of their past wrong-doings (for of course the consequences remain) in a new spirit that makes it possible for them to neutralize the evil or turn it into positive good. A less perfect kind of Forgiveness can be bestowed by those who are not themselves outstandingly holy, but who speak with the delegated authority of an institution which the sinner believes to be in some way a channel of supernatural grace. In this case the contact between unregenerate soul and divine Spirit is not direct, but is mediated through the sinners imagination.
Those who are holy in virtue of being selfless channels of the Spirit may practise psychic healing with perfect safety; for they will know which of the sick are ready to accept Forgiveness along with the mere miracle of a bodily cure. Those who are not holy, but who can Forgive sins in virtue of belonging to an institution which is believed to be a channel of grace may also practice healing with a fair confidence that they will not do more harm than good. But unfortunately the knack of psychic healing seems in some persons to be inborn, while others can acquire it without acquiring the smallest degree of holiness. (It is possible to receive such graces and yet be in mortal sin.) Such persons will use their knack indiscriminately, either to show off or for profit. Often they produce spectacular cures but lacking the power to Forgive sins or even to understand the psychological correlates, conditions or causes of the symptoms they have so miraculously dispelled, they leave a soul empty, swept and garnished against the coming of seven other devils worse than the first.
next chapter: 1.24 - RITUAL, SYMBOL, SACRAMENT
1.24 - On meekness, simplicity, guilelessness which come not from nature but from habit, and about malice., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
Meekness is the buttress of patience, the door, or rather, the mother of love, and the foundations of discernment, for it is said: The Lord will teach the meek His way.1 It prepares us for the Forgiveness of sins; it is boldness in prayer, an abode of the Holy Spirit. But to whom shall I look? Even to him that is meek and quiet.2
Meekness is the fellow-worker of obedience, the guide of the brotherhood, a curb for the furious, a check to the irritable, a minister of joy, the imitation of Christ, something proper to angels, shackles for demons, a shield against peevishness.
1.25 - On the destroyer of the passions, most sublime humility, which is rooted in spiritual feeling., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
35. There are some who all their lives use the bad deeds previously done by them, and for which they had received Forgiveness, as a motive for humility, thereby driving out their vain self-esteem. Others, having in mind Christs passion, regard themselves always as debtors. Others hold themselves cheap for their daily defects. Others as a result of their besetting temptations, infirmities and sins have mortified their pride. Others for want of graces have appropriated the mother of graces (i.e. humility). There are also people (if they still exist) who for the sake of the very gifts of God, in the measure that they receive them, humble themselves and so live as to account themselves unworthy of such wealth, and each day add it to their debt. Such is humility, such is beatitude, such is the perfect reward!
36. When you see or hear that someone has in a few years acquired the most sublime dispassion, then conclude that he travelled by no other way than by this blessed short-cut.
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56. He who asks God for less than his desert will certainly receive more than he deserves. This is demonstrated by the publican who asked for Forgiveness but received justification.2 And the robber only asked to be remembered in His Kingdom, but he inherited all Paradise.3
57. It is impossible to see fire, small or great, in any natural creature; and it is absolutely impossible that anything of a material nature should be found in sincere humility. As long as we fall into voluntary sins, there is not this humility in us; and that is the sign that there is still something material in us.
1.26 - Mental Processes - Two Only are Possible, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
In a previous letter I have dealt to some extent with this subject; but it is so important that you must Forgive me if I return to it, and that at length, from the outset, and in detail.
Let us begin but having our own minds clear of all ambiguities, ignoring for the purpose of this argument all metaphysical subtleties.*[AC31] I want to confine it to the outlook of the "plain man."
1.26 - On discernment of thoughts, passions and virtues, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
When the air is cleared of clouds, the sun shines brightly; and a soul freed from its former habits and granted Forgiveness has certainly seen the divine light.
Sin is one thing, idleness another, indifference another, passion another and a fall another. He who is able to investigate this in the Lord, let him seek clearly.
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In times of despondency never fail to bear in mind the Lords commandment to Peter to Forgive a person who sins seventy times seven.4 For He who gave this comm and to another will Himself do far more. But when we are exalted let us again remember the saying: He who shall keep the whole spiritual law, and yet stumble in one passion, that is, fall into pride, has become guilty of all.5
There exist certain dispositions of wicked and envious spirits which voluntarily leave the saints so as to deprive those who battle of any chance of obtaining crowns for victory over them.
1.28 - On holy and blessed prayer, mother of virtues, and on the attitude of mind and body in prayer., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
6. The attitude of prayer is one and the same for all, but there are many kinds of prayer and many different prayers. Some converse with God as with a friend and master, interceding with praise and petition not for themselves but for others. Some strive for more (spiritual) riches and glory and for confidence in prayer. Others ask for complete deliverance from their adversary.1 Some beg to receive some kind of rank; others for complete Forgiveness of debts. Some ask to be released from prison; others for remission of accusations.
7. Before all else let us list sincere thanksgiving first on our prayer-card. On the second line we should put confession, and heartfelt contrition of soul. Then let us present our petition to the King of all. This is the best way of prayer, as it was shown to one of the brethren by an angel of the Lord.
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13. Though you may have climbed the whole ladder of the virtues, pray for Forgiveness of sins. Listen to the cry of Paul regarding sinners: Of whom I am the first.3
14. Oil and salt are seasonings for food; and tears and chastity give wings to prayer.
1.29 - Concerning heaven on earth, or godlike dispassion and perfection, and the resurrection of the soul before the general resurrection., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
14. Imagine dispassion as the celestial palace of the Heavenly King; and the many mansions3 as the abodes within this city, and the wall of this celestial Jerusalem as the Forgiveness of sins. Let us run, brethren, let us run to enter the bridal hall of this palace. If we are prevented by anything, by some burden or old habit, or by time itself what a disaster! Let us at least occupy one of those mansions around the palace. But if we sink down and grow weak, let us make sure of being at least within the walls. For he who does not enter there before his end, or rather, does not scale the wall, will lie out in the desert of fiends and passions. That is why a certain man prayed, saying: Through my God I shall scale the wall.4 And another says as if in the person of God: Is it not your sins that separate you from Me?5 Friends, let us break through this wall of separation which we have erected to our own harm by disobedience; and let us receive the Forgiveness of our sins, because in hell there is no one to pardon our debts. So then, brethren, let us devote ourselves to our task, for we are on the roll of the devout. There is no room for any excuse whether of a fall, or opportunity, or burden. For to all who have received the Lord by the baptism of regeneration He has given power to be come children of God,6 saying: Be still and know that I am God7 and am Dispassion. To Him be the glory for ever and ever! Amen.
1 Galatians ii, 20.
1.30 - Describes the importance of understanding what we ask for in prayer. Treats of these words in the Paternoster: Sanctificetur nomen tuum, adveniat regnum tuum. Applies them to the Prayer of Quiet, and begins the explanation of them., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
though I know this is certainly not true. Forgive my wanting to speak of it, for I know there are
many people who practise vocal prayer in the manner already described and are raised by God to
1.33 - The Golden Mean, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
James Hilton has a most amusing Chinese in his Lost Horizon. When the American 100% he-man, mixer, joiner, and go-getter, agrees with him about broadmindedness in religious beliefs, and ends "and I'm dead sure you're right!" his host mildly rebukes him, saying: "But we are only moderately sure." Such thought plumbs the Abysses of Wisdom; at least, it may quite possibly do so. Forgive me if I emulate the teacher!
But this is not as simple as it sounds. There is great danger in this Golden Mean, one of whose main objects is to steer clear of shipwreck, Scylla being as fatal as Charybdis. No, this lofty and equable attitude is worse than wrong unless it derives from striking the balance between two very distant opposites. One of the worst perils of the present time is that, in the reaction against ignorant bigotry, people no longer dare to make up their minds about anything. The very practice, which the AA so strongly and persistently advocates, tends to make people feel that any positive attitude or gesture is certainly wrong, whatever may be right. They forget that the opposite may, within the limit of the universe of discourse, amount to nothing.
1.36 - Treats of these words in the Paternoster Dimitte nobis debita nostra., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
that His will shall be done in us. So He now asks Him to Forgive us our debts, as we ourselves
Forgive others. Thus, continuing the prayer which He is teaching us, He says these words: "And
Forgive us, Lord, our debts, even as we Forgive them to our debtors."
Notice, sisters, that He does not say: "as we shall Forgive." We are to understand that anyone
who asks for so great a gift as that just mentioned, and has already yielded his own will to the will
of God, must have done this already. And so He says: "as we Forgive our debtors." Anyone, then,
who sincerely repeats this petition, "Fiat voluntas tua", must, at least in intention, have done this
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myself do, who has had so little to Forgive others and has so much to be Forgiven herself? This,
sisters, is something which we should consider carefully; it is such a serious and important matter
--
so, Lord, for I believe I would Forgive any wrong if Thou wouldst Forgive me and I might
unconditionally do Thy will. True, if the occasion were to arise, and I were condemned without
--
have done something wonderful because we have Forgiven a person for some trifling thing, which
was neither a slight nor an insult nor anything else. Then we shall ask the Lord to Forgive us as
people who have done something important, just because we have Forgiven someone. Grant us, my
God, to understand how little we understand ourselves and how empty our hands are when we come
to Thee that Thou, of Thy mercy, mayest Forgive us. For in truth, Lord, since all things have an end
and punishment is eternal, I can see nothing meritorious which I may present to Thee that Thou
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simply says: "Because we Forgive." Perhaps the reason He said this rather than anything else was
because He knew that our fondness for this dreadful honour made mutual love the hardest virtue
--
Note particularly, sisters, that He says: "As we Forgive." As I have said, He takes this for granted.
And observe especially with regard to it that unless, after experiencing the favours granted by God
--
as regards Forgiveness, if not in the other virtues as well. I cannot believe that a soul which has
approached so nearly to Mercy Itself, and has learned to know itself and the greatness of God's
pardon, will not immediately and readily Forgive, and be mollified and remain on good terms with
119
1.37 - Describes the excellence of this prayer called the Paternoster, and the many ways in which we shall find consolation in it., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
to Forgive,131I have myself need for Forgiveness every day. May He give me grace so that every day
I may have some petition to lay before Him.)
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are perfect will surrender their wills like the perfect souls they are and will Forgive others with the
perfection that has been described. For our own part, sisters, we will do what we can, and the Lord
--
The words "though . . . Forgive" are crossed out in the manuscript, as is the following sentence "May He . . . before Him."
121
14.06 - Liberty, Self-Control and Friendship, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
For whatsoever I have spoken to Thee in rash vehemence, thinking of Thee only as my human friend and companion, 'O Krishna, O Yadava, O Comrade,' not knowing this Thy greatness, in negligent error or in love, and for whatsoever disrespect was shown by me to Thee in jest, at play, on the couch and the seat and in the banquet, alone or in Thy presence, O faultless One, I pray Forgiveness from Thee, the Immeasurable.3
However what I wanted to say is, the Mother is truly your mother and as truly your friend and comrade. She loves you as no one else can love. She answers to your love as no one else can. And she teaches you how to love. Even if you are full of errors and mistakes; it does not matter, she takes you as you are, you can be quite free and open to her, she is there to understand you, to help you. She is not there to scold you or find fault with or criticise you. If you are not able to correct yourself, you have simply to look to her, she will do what is needful for you. I have always spoken to you of a body beautiful, an inner body beautiful and an outer body beautifulany wrong thought or feeling or act leaves a stain, a scar upon your inner body, you are to see that the stain goes away and the body resume its glow, you are not always able to do it with your own will and effort because you do not know how to do it, but only try not to repeat the error and take your shelter in the Mother's presence, in her arms. The stain disfigures your inner beauty, you have to pray and appeal to her: with her healing touch she will remove all stain and disfiguring mark It is an experience that some of you must have had in some way or other, must have felt in dream at least, the loving embrace of the Mother. You have to live in it, live it even in your waking hours. Be sincere and ask for it, your wish will be granted.
1.42 - Treats of these last words of the Paternoster Sed libera nos a malo. Amen. But deliver us from evil. Amen., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
that have been described. May His Majesty Forgive me for having dared to speak of such high
matters. Well does His Majesty know that I should not have ventured to do so, and that my
17.11 - A Prayer, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
O Goddess, protect us by your spontaneous Grace, Forgive all our offences, against the supreme Light of all lights. It is he who assumes a multitude of forms; he dwells in the lotus heart of the universe, he makes the laws that upbear the status and dynamism of the cosmos, he alone is able to awaken all to knowledge. O Goddess, remove all evil forthwith and for ever, be constantly present in us.
May the divine Master, Guru Bhaskara, protect us from every evil and danger. May he manifest himself to reveal the essential mystery of his path of worship and to spread the true tradition of Knowledge.
1957-06-26 - Birth through direct transmutation - Man and woman - Judging others - divine Presence in all - New birth, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo is probably alluding, among other things, to an incident which took place in 1921 in Pondicherry at the "Guest House" where he lived. A cook who had been dismissed had gone to a local black magician to try to take his revenge, and a shower of stones began to fall into the courtyard of the "Guest House", regularly for several days. The people on the first floor could see the stones forming in front of their eyes and then falling into the courtyard. These stones were so real that they hurt a young servant, and could be picked up. Strangely enough they were all covered with moss. Finally, when larger and larger stones started falling inside closed rooms, and there was no longer any doubt about their occult origin, Mother intervened with her inner power and the "shower" stopped. A few days later the cook's wife came running to ask for Sri Aurobindo's Forgiveness: the cook lay dying in the hospital, struck by the "recoil" of his shower of stones. Sri Aurobindo answered, "For this he need not die!" And everything returned to normal. This incident is related in detail in The Life of Sri Aurobindo by A. B. Purani, 1964 Ed., pp. 282-83.
***
1960 03 02, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
21 Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, What have I to Forgive and whom?
When we ask Forgiveness of the Divine, does He always Forgive us?
Sri Aurobindo himself gives us the Divines answer: Forgive whom and what? The Lord knows that all is Himself and therefore that all actions are His and all things are Himself. To Forgive, one must be other than the one who is Forgiven and the thing to be Forgiven must have been done by someone other than oneself.
The truth is that when you ask Forgiveness you hope that the dire consequences of what you have done will be wiped away. But that is possible only if the causes of the error you have committed have themselves disappeared. If you have made a mistake through ignorance, the ignorance must disappear. If you have made a mistake through bad will, the bad will must disappear and be replaced by goodwill. Mere regret will not do, it must be accompanied by a step forward.
For the universe is constantly evolving; nothing is at a standstill. Everything is perpetually changing, moving forward or backward. Things or acts that set us back seem bad to us, and cause confusion and disorder. The only remedy for them is a radical forward movement, a progress. This new orientation alone can annul the consequences of the backward movement.
Therefore it is not a vague and abstract Forgiveness that one should ask of the Divine, but the power to make the necessary progress. For only an inner transformation can wipe out the consequences of the act.
2 March 1960
1960 03 09, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
23God gave me good in a blow. Shall I say, I Forgive thee, O Almighty One, the harm and the cruelty, but do it not again?
What does this mean: God struck me with a human hand?
These two Aphorisms are illustrations of the affirmation of the Divine Presence in all things and all beings, and they also develop the idea which has already been touched on, that there is nothing and no one to Forgive, since the Divine is the originator of all things.
This is how this sentence, God struck me with a human hand, should be read and understood. If you see nothing but the appearances, it is only one man hitting another. But for one who sees and knows the Truth, it is the supreme Lord who gives the blow through that human hand, and the blow necessarily does good to the one who receives it, that is to say, brings about a progress in his consciousness, for the ultimate aim of creation is to awaken all beings to the consciousness of the Divine.
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Are we to Forgive the Lord for the good He does us, while, at the same time, asking Him not to do it again?
The self-contradiction and stupidity of such a formula are obvious.
1970 04 02, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
435When I first met Krishna, I loved Him as a friend and playmate till He deceived me; then I was indignant and could not Forgive Him. Afterwards I loved Him as a lover and He still deceived me; I was again and much more indignant, but this time I had to pardon.
436After offending, He forced me to pardon Him not by reparation, but by committing fresh offences.
1.ac - A Birthday, #Crowley - Poems, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Until the world there's so much to Forgive in
Becomes a little possible to live in.
1f.lovecraft - Facts concerning the Late, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
thing which such a man would not be likely to Forgive. She had died in
Africa, perhaps dragged thither by a husband determined to prove what
1f.lovecraft - Herbert West-Reanimator, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
magnanimous Forgiveness.
And then had come the scourge, grinning and lethal, from the nightmare
1f.lovecraft - Sweet Ermengarde, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
all the money in the house. Now wholly humbled, he asked Forgiveness of
our heroine, and confided to her the whole tale of the gold on her
1f.lovecraft - The Horror at Red Hook, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
the fully Forgiven relatives who had so lately sought his restraint.
Some attended through curiosity, others through duty; but all were
1f.lovecraft - The Hound, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
May heaven Forgive the folly and morbidity which led us both to so
monstrous a fate! Wearied with the commonplaces of a prosaic world,
1f.lovecraft - The Last Test, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
uses, and patted Dick on the head either to Forgive him for having
fooled her and Dalton, or to console him for having been fooled
--
Daltons loyalty, and of his Forgiveness of even the greatest wrongs,
as shewn in his dealings with the elder Clarendon who had crushed his
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Forgiveness for all his offences, and commended his sister to the care
of his friend.
1f.lovecraft - The Music of Erich Zann, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Forgiveness. Zann said that he was old, lonely, and afflicted with
strange fears and nervous disorders connected with his music and with
1f.lovecraft - The Rats in the Walls, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
What the people could not Forgive, perhaps, was that I had come to
restore a symbol so abhorrent to them; for, rationally or not, they
1f.lovecraft - The Temple, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
wait until later; it is better to repent and be Forgiven than to defy
and be condemned. Then I tried the opposite of the soothing plan, and
1.fs - Hymn To Joy, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
Every sin shall be Forgiven,
Hell forever cease to be!
1.fs - Ode To Joy, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
Every sin shall be Forgiven,
Hell forever cease to be.
1.fs - Ode To Joy - With Translation, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
Let all sinners Forgive
And no longer be hell.
--
Our deadly enemy be Forgiven,
Not one tear shall he shed anymore,
--
All sinners shall be Forgiven,
And hell shall be no more.
1.fs - Thekla - A Spirit Voice, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
There my father dwells, his sins Forgiven,
Murder foul can never reach him there.
1.ia - Modification Of The R Poem, #Arabi - Poems, #Ibn Arabi, #Sufism
And lay down your head and ask for Forgiveness for no reason
and stand up on the feet of fairness apologizing
--
that The Lord Forgives me together with all the Muslims
I am still united with and connected to them in Allah,
and our sins there by Him Forgiven and pardoned
O whoever was in this council with us
1.jk - A Draught Of Sunshine, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
'These lines are part of an extract from a letter to Reynolds dated "Hampstead, Jan. 31st, 1818," published in Volume I of the Life, Letters &c. (1848), but omitted from the first Life and Letters of 1867 as "a page of doggerel not worth transcription." The time has now come when students will feel entitled to have even Keats's doggerel, some of which, by the bye, has far less reason (and rhyme too) than the present effusion -- to my mind rather a bright and happy specimen, notwithstanding Keats's own plea to his correspondent, "you must Forgive all this ranting; but the fact is, I cannot write sense this morning." With the view of giving Reynolds "some sense" nevertheless, he proceeds to copy out his latest sonnet, "When I have fears" &c.'
~ Poetical Works of John Keats, ed. H. Buxton Forman, Crowell publ. 1895. by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes
1.jk - Endymion - Book III, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
My sovereign vision.Dearest love, Forgive
That I can think away from thee and live!
1.jk - Endymion - Book IV, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
"Fair damsel, pity me! Forgive that I
Thus violate thy bower's sanctity!
1.jk - Lamia. Part II, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
IsLove, Forgive us!cinders, ashes, dust;
Love in a palace is perhaps at last
--
And you Forgive me. Lycius blushd, and led
The old man through the inner doors broad-spread;
1.jk - Otho The Great - Act I, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
But now my sight is clear; Forgive me, lady.
Auranthe. My lord, I was a vassal to your frown,
--
Sigifred. My lord, Forgive me that I cannot see
How this proud temper with clear reason squares.
--
Such things deserted me and are Forgiven,
While I, least guilty, am an outcast still,
--
He will Forgive thee, and awake in grief
To have not thy good morrow.
1.jk - Otho The Great - Act III, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Yes, yes, yes, I offend. You must Forgive me;
Not being quite recover'd from the stun
1.jk - Otho The Great - Act V, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Give me thy hand hast thou Forgiven me?
Erminia. Would I were with the saints to pray for you!
--
Physician. Forgive me, but he must not see thy face
Otho. Is then a father's countenance a Gorgon?
--
Wilt thou Forgive me? And thou, holy Man,
Good Ethelbert, shall I die in peace with you?
1.jk - Two Sonnets. To Haydon, With A Sonnet Written On Seeing The Elgin Marbles, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Haydon! Forgive me that I cannot speak
Definitively of these mighty things;
1.jr - If You Want What Visable Reality, #Rumi - Poems, #Jalaluddin Rumi, #Poetry
but you'll be Forgiven for forgetting
that what you really want is
1.jr - Lovers, #Rumi - Poems, #Jalaluddin Rumi, #Poetry
He asks that we Forgive him
for the disturbance he has caused us,
1.kbr - What Kind Of God?, #Songs of Kabir, #Kabir, #Sufism
all are Forgiven moreover, dears,
no one has ever been
1.okym - 58 - Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
English version by Edward FitzGerald Original Language Persian/Farsi Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give -- and take! [bk1sm.gif] -- from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam / Translated by Edward FitzGerald <
1.pbs - Alastor - or, the Spirit of Solitude, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
And cherished these my kindred; then Forgive
This boast, belovd brethren, and withdraw
1.pbs - Epipsychidion - Passages Of The Poem, Or Connected Therewith, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
And to Forgive their mutual faults, and smother
The Devil of disunion in their souls.
1.pbs - Julian and Maddalo - A Conversation, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
"He could Forgive not." Here I cast away
All human passions, all revenge, all pride;
1.pbs - Loves Philosophy, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
No sister-flower would be Forgiven
If it disdain'd its brother:
1.pbs - Prometheus Unbound, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
To Forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
1.pbs - Rosalind and Helen - a Modern Eclogue, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
I know thou wilt; and canst Forgive,
Whilst in this erring world to live
1.pbs - The Cenci - A Tragedy In Five Acts, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Ah, no! Forgive me; sorrow makes me seem
Sterner than else my nature might have been;
--
O husband! Pray Forgive poor Beatrice.
She meant not any ill.
--
Canst Thou Forgive even the unforgiving,
When their full hearts break thus, thus! . . .
--
Sweet Heaven, Forgive weak thoughts! If there should be
No God, no Heaven, no Earth in the void world;
1.pbs - The Revolt Of Islam - Canto I-XII, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
O Liberty! Forgive the base endeavour,
Forgive me, if, reserved for victory,
The Champion of thy faith e'er sought to fly.
--
Ye stabbed as they did sleepbut they Forgive ye now.
'Oh wherefore should ill ever flow from ill,
--
Even as to thee have these done ill, and are Forgiven!
'Join then your hands and hearts, and let the past
--
Since I first spakebut time shall be Forgiven,
Though it change all but thee!'She ceasednight's gloom
--
Go forth, and waste and kill!''O king, Forgive
My speech,' a soldier answered'but we fear
--
Made dim, but be at length our sins Forgiven,
Ere to despair and death thy worshippers be driven.
1.pbs - The Witch Of Atlas, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Had half (oh! why not all?) the debt Forgiven
Which dear Adonis had been doomed to pay,
1.poe - Al Aaraaf- Part 2, #Poe - Poems, #unset, #Zen
With many a mutter'd "hope to be Forgiven"
What time the moon is quadrated in Heaven-
1.poe - The Raven, #Poe - Poems, #unset, #Zen
"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your Forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
1.rb - A Lovers Quarrel, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
And Forgive me as before.
It is twelve o'clock:
1.rb - Andrea del Sarto, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
King Francis may Forgive me: oft at nights
When I look up from painting, eyes tired out,
1.rb - An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
AsGod Forgive me! who but God himself,
Creator and sustainer of the world,
1.rb - Before, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Wrong shall be resisted: dead, why, he Forgives.
But you must not end my friend ere you begin him;
1.rb - Paracelsus - Part III - Paracelsus, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
The devil's tempting . . . I offend: Forgive me,
And rest content. Your prophecy on the whole
1.rb - Paracelsus - Part II - Paracelsus Attains, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
To love; and, merciful God, Forgive us both!
We wake at length from weary dreams; but both
1.rb - Paracelsus - Part V - Paracelsus Attains, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Forgivestso, Forgive these passionate thoughts
Which come unsought and will not pass away!
--
They will Forgive me too, I too shall know!
Festus.
1.rb - Pauline, A Fragment of a Question, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Thou didst smile, poet, but can we Forgive?
Sun-treader, life and light be thine for ever!
1.rb - Pippa Passes - Part I - Morning, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
This way? Will you Forgive mebe once more
My great queen?
1.rb - Sordello - Book the Second, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
"So leave me now. Forgive me! Palma, sure,
"Is at Goito still. Retain that lure
1.rb - The Flight Of The Duchess, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
-Jacynth Forgive me the comparison!
But where I begin asy own narration
1.rmr - Dedication, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
If this presumptuous seems, God, may I be Forgiven.
For what I want to say to you is this:
1.rt - Fireflies, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
but the azalea brins to me, my love, thy Forgiveness.
Thy shy little pomegranate bud,
--
Love punishes when it Forgives,
and injured beauty by its awful silence.
--
Let the evening Forgive the mistakes of the day
and thus win peace for herself.
1.rt - Lord Of My Life, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
I wonder if my failure and wrongs are Forgiven.
For many were my days without service
1.rt - Lovers Gifts LXX - Take Back Your Coins, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
I fled, " Forgive me. " The women's foul laughter pressed me like
a cracking fire, but the words ever rang in my ears, " What God
1.rt - Lovers Gifts XVIII - Your Days, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
much in earnest to keep it when music is silent, you must Forgive
me; for the law laid down in May is best broken in December.
1.rt - The Gardener XLIV - Reverend Sir, Forgive, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
object:1.rt - The Gardener XLIV - Reverend Sir, Forgive
author class:Rabindranath Tagore
--
Reverend sir, Forgive this pair of
sinners. Spring winds to-day are
1.rwe - Saadi, #Emerson - Poems, #Ralph Waldo Emerson, #Philosophy
Who in their pride Forgive not ours.
Thus the sad-eyed Fakirs preach;
1.sfa - Prayer Inspired by the Our Father, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
English version by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP & Ignatius C. Brady, OFM Original Language Italian O OUR most holy FATHER, Our Creator, Redeemer, Consoler, and Savior WHO ARE IN HEAVEN: In the angels and in the saints, Enlightening them to love, because You, Lord, are light Inflaming them to love, because You, Lord, are love Dwelling in them and filling them with happiness, because You, Lord, are the Supreme Good, the Eternal Good from Whom comes all good without Whom there is no good. HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME: May our knowledge of You become ever clearer That we may know the breadth of Your blessings the length of Your promises the height of Your majesty the depths of Your judgments YOUR KINGDOM COME: So that You may rule in us through Your grace and enable us to come to Your kingdom where there is an unclouded vision of You a perfect love of You a blessed companionship with You an eternal enjoyment of You YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN: That we may love you with our whole heart by always thinking of You with our whole soul by always desiring You with our whole mind by directing all our intentions to You and by seeking Your glory in everything and with our whole strength by spending all our energies and affections of soul and body in the service of Your love and of nothing else and may we love our neighbors as ourselves by drawing them all with our whole strength to Your love by rejoicing in the good fortunes of others as well as our own and by sympathizing with the misfortunes of others and by giving offense to no one GIVE US THIS DAY: in memory and understanding and reverence of the love which our Lord Jesus Christ had for us and of those things which He said and did and suffered for us OUR DAILY BREAD Your own Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ AND Forgive US OUR TRESPASSES: Through Your ineffable mercy through the power of the Passion of Your Beloved Son together with the merits and intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all Your chosen ones AS WE Forgive THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US: And whatever we do not Forgive perfectly, do you, Lord, enable us to Forgive to the full so that we may truly love our enemies and fervently intercede for them before You returning no one evil for evil and striving to help everyone in You AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION Hidden or obvious Sudden or persistent BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL Past, present and to come. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen. [1495.jpg] -- from Francis and Clare: The Complete Works: The Classics of Western Spirituality, Translated by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP / Translated by Ignatius C. Brady, OFM <
1.sfa - The Canticle of Brother Sun, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
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1.srm - The Necklet of Nine Gems, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
English version by Ivan M. Granger Original Language Tamil 1. In the court, Siva, though motionless, dances before Shakti in stillness. In Arunachala, with solemnity, He stands. She withdraws there into His still Self. 2. 'A,' 'Ru,' and 'Na' Sat, Chit, and Ananda -- the Supreme Self, the individual self -- their union is Absolute; Thus, the great saying -- 'You are That.' 'Achala' bespeaks perfection. Worship Arunachala shining, golden; simply remembering unlocks the door. 3. Touching the lotus feet of the Lord of Arunachala, freed from attachment to wealth, family, place, ever purer, seeking grace -- darkness recedes. In the rising sun, golden, steady, full of grace, there abide, joyously sunk in the Sea of Bliss. 4. Annamalai! Don't let me pine forgetful. Don't crush me to dust, leaving me confused between body and Self. Turn Your restoring glance upon me, eye of my eyes! You Who are all Consciousness, You Who are neither male nor female, don't fail me! Seat Yourself in my heart. 5. You Who are all Consciousness, ruling over sublime Shonagiri, Forgive the stumblings of this little one. Rain Cloud, shower me with Your gracious glance. Save me from being lost once more in the dreary waste. I cannot ford the grim stream of manifestation. Mother, what can match Your care? 6. 'Killer of Kama, Destroyer of Desire,' tied to You we know Your name. A question, though, if the title fits: How can mighty Kama continue, bold and conquering? How can he creep unseen upon one sheltered beneath Your feet? Tell me, You Who killed him? 7. Arunachala! As soon as You claimed me, I was Yours, body and soul. What is left to want? You are success and You are failure both, Oh my life! They are meaningless without You. Beloved, do as You will with me, but promise me ever greater desire for Your Feet! 8. To rescue me -- born of virtuous Sundara and Sundari in holy Tiruchuli, seat of Bhuminatheshware -- from the pain of the world, He raised me to his seat, His heart rejoices. Siva shines forth. And the Self flowers. Such is Arunachala, known across the universe! 9. Bearing me in the world as my father and mother, You hid in my mind. Before I drowned in the deep illusion, You drew me, Arunachala, You Who are All Consciousness, such is the wonder of Your Grace! <
--- Overview of verb forgive
The verb forgive has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (24) forgive ::: (stop blaming or grant forgiveness; "I forgave him his infidelity"; "She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday")
2. (1) forgive ::: (absolve from payment; "I forgive you your debt")
--- Grep of noun forgive
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Unforgiven(1992) - Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face, Bi...
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Up The Academy(1980) - Mad Magazine's ill-fated attempt to enter the movie world is a tale of several young men sent off to a military academy. This comedy was unfortunately hacked up before its' release and was so revilied (forgive the pun) that Rob Leibman, who had a major role in the movie, asked to have his name remov...
The Last Grenade(1970) - Two soldiers of fortune, Harry Grigsby and Kip Thompson, used to be the best of friends when they fought side by side in the Congo. But now Kip has changed sides and Grigsby does not forgive him for what he regards as a betrayal, all the more as Thompson now turns his guns against Grigsby's troops a...
An Unfinished Life (2005) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 48min | Drama, Family, Romance | 16 September 2005 (USA) -- Desperate to provide care for her daughter, down-on-her-luck Jean moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. Through time, they learn to forgive each other and heal old wounds. Director: Lasse Hallstrm Writers:
Bad Lieutenant (1992) ::: 7.1/10 -- NC-17 | 1h 36min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 17 December 1992 -- Bad Lieutenant Poster -- While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness and redemption. Director: Abel Ferrara Writers:
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 1h 46min | Biography, Comedy, Crime | 2 November 2018 (South -- Can You Ever Forgive Me? Poster -- When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. Director: Marielle Heller Writers:
Chaos Theory (2008) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 27min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 16 October 2008 (Russia) -- The story of an obsessively organized efficiency expert whose life unravels in unexpected ways when fate forces him to explore the serendipitous nature of love and forgiveness. Director: Marcos Siega Writer:
Enemy Mine (1985) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 48min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 20 December 1985 (USA) -- During a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust. Director: Wolfgang Petersen Writers: Barry Longyear (story), Edward Khmara (screenplay) (as Ed Khmara)
Heaven Knows What (2014) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 37min | Crime, Drama | 29 May 2015 (USA) -- A young woman struggles to reconcile her love for her boyfriend and for heroin, as she finds out that suicide is the only way for her boyfriend to forgive her for her misdeed. Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie Writers:
I Can Only Imagine (2018) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 1h 50min | Biography, Drama, Family | 16 March 2018 (USA) -- The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe's beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness. Directors: Andrew Erwin (as The Erwin Brothers), Jon Erwin (as The Erwin Brothers) Writers:
Life During Wartime (2009) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama | 16 April 2010 (Italy) -- Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Director: Todd Solondz Writer: Todd Solondz
Magnolia (1999) ::: 8.0/10 -- R | 3h 8min | Drama | 7 January 2000 (USA) -- An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley. Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson
The Keeping Hours (2017) ::: 6.3/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 31min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 24 July 2018 (USA) -- 10 years after the death of their son, a divorced couple are suddenly reunited by supernatural events that offer them a chance at forgiveness. Director: Karen Moncrieff Writer: Rebecca Sonnenshine Stars:
The Unforgiven (1960) ::: 6.7/10 -- Approved | 2h 5min | Drama, Romance, Western | 6 April 1960 (USA) -- The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe. Director: John Huston Writers: Ben Maddow (screenplay), Alan Le May (based on a novel by) (as Alan LeMay) Stars:
Unforgiven (1992) ::: 8.2/10 -- R | 2h 10min | Drama, Western | 7 August 1992 (USA) -- Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid." Director: Clint Eastwood Writer:
Waves (2019) ::: 7.6/10 -- R | 2h 15min | Drama, Romance, Sport | 15 November 2019 (USA) -- Traces the journey of a suburban family - led by a well-intentioned but domineering father - as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. Director: Trey Edward Shults Writer:
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Grisaia: Phantom Trigger The Animation -- -- Bibury Animation Studios -- 2 eps -- Visual novel -- Action School -- Grisaia: Phantom Trigger The Animation Grisaia: Phantom Trigger The Animation -- Following the Heath Oslo incident, the existence of the US-Japanese anti-terror organization CIRS has become a matter of public knowledge. CIRS has been rebuilt from the ground up, and its most covert functions spun off to a new agency: SORD (Social Ops, Research & Development). -- -- The goal of SORD is to train a new generation of operatives to defend the country against future threats. To that end, the organization has established a series of schools up and down the country. Mihama Academy, more-or-less left to rot after its abrupt closure, has been given new purpose as one such 'specialist training school'. -- -- This new incarnation of Mihama Academy is home to a diverse group of students, who every day work to polish their unusual skills – sometimes on the job. Mihama now entrusts the misfit girls who attend it with guns and live ammunition. -- -- Paying their own safety no heed, these students are again and again plunged into dangerous extrajudicial missions - all for the good of the realm. -- -- "We've been provided with a place in the world. That alone isn't enough - there wouldn't be any meaning in living, if that was all we had... It's not enough just to be made use of by others. I live by my own strength, and I fight to survive. That's the only way those of us who actually make it through can find forgiveness..." -- -- No matter how much life grinds them down, what future awaits these girls, who've themselves chosen the path of the gun? -- -- (Source: Kickstarter) -- Movie - Mar 15, 2019 -- 60,507 6.97
Koushoku Ichidai Otoko -- -- Animation Staff Room, Grouper Productions -- 1 ep -- - -- Drama Hentai Historical Psychological -- Koushoku Ichidai Otoko Koushoku Ichidai Otoko -- The OVA is based on incidents in the novel Koshoku Ichidai Otoko (The Life of an Amorous Man) by Saikaku Ihara (1642-1693). -- -- The libertine Yonosuke has spent his life in quest of sexual pleasure. Disowned by his father when he is 18, 16 years full of changes and errantry begin for him. At the age of 34 he inherits great wealth after his father dies and forgives his son. -- -- When Yunosuke is 57, one of his tailors named Juzo comes to see him before setting out for Edo. Juzo has unwisely made a bet with a rich merchant that he will sleep with Komurasaki, the most renowned courtesan in Edo, at the first meeting. If he succeeds he will win a villa, but if he loses he will lose his manhood. Yunosuke is astounded as he knows how hard the high rank courtesans are to get. The best courtesans, tayu, as well as being beautiful, were highly cultured, being educated in poetry, calligraphy, painting, tea ceremony and other arts. They would sleep with a client only on the third night, the other two nights being taken up with greetings and other social niceties. Humble men, to whom they were 'untouchable' looked up to them with adoration and respect. -- -- Indignant, Yunosuke takes Juzo to Edo and enables him to meet Komurasaki. Juzo is a laughing-stock at the tea-house because of his nervousness, and soon becomes drunk. He clumsily spills wine over the courtesan's kimono. Unperturbed, she goes out and returns wearing a fresh, identical garment. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- OVA - Jan 18, 1991 -- 3,063 6.08
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack -- -- Studio Hibari, Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Military Sci-Fi Space Drama Mecha -- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack -- The year is Universal Century 0093. Char Aznable has taken command of Neo Zeon, the rebels of outer space. He firmly believes that humankind can only achieve peace by relocating to space. Thus, he plans to crash the giant asteroid Axis into Earth and plunge the planet into an uninhabitable winter. Char also eagerly anticipates this opportunity to settle a 14-year rivalry with Amuro Ray. The two have been reluctant allies at times, but Char has never forgiven Amuro for causing the death of one of his comrades during the One Year War. -- -- Only the Earth Federation's Londo Bell Unit has the power to stop Char from fulfilling his dangerous goal. Leading the defense of Earth is veteran captain Bright Noa and Amuro Ray with the latest Nu Gundam mobile suit. In this thrilling conclusion to the original Gundam series, Londo Bell engages in a final conflict with Neo Zeon that will decide the fate of Earth and end this long-standing rivalry—once and for all. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- Movie - Mar 12, 1988 -- 34,988 7.68
Sentou Mecha Xabungle -- -- Sunrise -- 50 eps -- Original -- Military Sci-Fi Mecha Shounen -- Sentou Mecha Xabungle Sentou Mecha Xabungle -- On the planet Zora exist two societies: the Innocent, an advanced culture that lives in domed cities, and the Civilians, who are forced to live in the harsh desert wilderness. As dictated by the Innocent, any Civilian that commits a crime is forgiven if they are not brought to justice within three days. -- -- Civilian Jiron Amos seeks revenge on the villainous outlaw Timp Sharon who murdered his parents, despite the fact the three-day period has long since passed. Hoping to get his revenge by stealing the mecha Xabungle from the merchant Carrying Cargo, Jiron teams up with a group of bandits known as the Sandrats and kidnaps Cargo's daughter Elchi, who ends up being sympathetic to his cause. Jiron's quest for revenge soon grows into a conflict much bigger—one that will eventually see the Civilians rise up against the Innocents' rule. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Maiden Japan -- TV - Feb 6, 1982 -- 3,947 7.20
Yami no Teio: Kyuuketsuki Dracula -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Other -- Vampire -- Yami no Teio: Kyuuketsuki Dracula Yami no Teio: Kyuuketsuki Dracula -- On a seemingly normal night in Boston, a satanic ritual is taking place: a bride is to be offered up as a sacrifice. However, Dracula, the King of Vampires, swoops in and steals her, with the intent of depriving the woman of both her blood and her life. And yet, despite his earlier motives for abducting the bride, Dracula is astonished by her beauty and decides to keep the woman as his wife. -- -- He and Domini, his spouse, lead a fruitful life together, bearing a healthy son by the name of Janus, with Dracula's crime against Satan fading from memory. On the other hand, Satan hasn't forgiven him for stealing his rightful bride and is plotting to ruin his happiness when the time is right. Another group, the Vampire Hunters, similarly wish to destroy Dracula as vengeance for the souls he has taken to feed himself. -- -- Now carrying the burden of a family, Dracula must protect himself from Satan's plots as well as from the vengeful Vampire Hunters in a desperate fight for survival and forbidden love. -- -- Special - Aug 19, 1980 -- 3,030 3.80
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