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For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt.

Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off by every act of vengeance always takes its unhindered course. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain...Why do family feuds go on and on?...the reason is simple: no two people, no two families, ever weigh pain on the same scale.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham).

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.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

You must ask for God's help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.

Nobody who has ever given his best has regretted it.

Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.

Forgive others so that you may be forgiven.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

"He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix. 2). God allowed him to fall, because He meant to make him ruler over the whole world, that, remembering his own fall, he might forgive those who should slip in the future. And that what I have said is no guess, listen to Christ Himself saying: 'Simon, Simon, etc.'"

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.