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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to read more
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.
Everybody deserves forgiveness and second chances, but not for the same mistake...
Everybody deserves forgiveness and second chances, but not for the same mistake...
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
The fairest action of our human life
Is scorning to revenge an injury;
For who forgives without read more
The fairest action of our human life
Is scorning to revenge an injury;
For who forgives without a further strife,
His adversary's heart to him doth tie:
And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said,
To win the heart than overthrow the head.
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to
grant it to others.
[Lat., Aequum read more
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to
grant it to others.
[Lat., Aequum est
Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus.]
Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey,
Cancel my debt (too great to pay)
Before the sad accounting day.
Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey,
Cancel my debt (too great to pay)
Before the sad accounting day.
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was YOU. -Unknown.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was YOU. -Unknown.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter.