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“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
Will Smith
“Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.”
Lao Tzu
“He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don't want the other person to forget that we forgave”
Ivern Ball
“Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.”
Joan Borysenko
“The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing”
George Bernard Shaw
“Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”
C.S. Lewis
“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.”
Lily Tomlin
“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
Catherine Ponder
“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.”
Joan Lunden
