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It is easy to feel at peace, when you forgive.

It is easy to say the word forgiveness but the challenge is to live the word forgiveness.

It is gracious to overlook an offence.

It is gracious to overlook and offence.

It is human to sin but divine to be saved.

It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.

It is impossible to forgive whoever has done us harm if that harm has lowered us. We have to think that it has not lowered us, but has revealed our true level.

It is far kinder and smarter to show someone a better path in life than to darkly follow down their's with the self-righteous belief that you do so with the purer intentions of justly punishing them for their previous actions, making you hypocritically the same and thus influencing further negative repercussions.

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

It is not in our nature to judge each other but to love one another.

It is impossible to enjoy divine protection without the word of God. You must be a word addict.

It is insufficient to understand all, and thus to forgive all. If we were to truly understand, we would know there is nothing to forgive.

...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being. [Letter to William Short, 13 April 1820]

It is only kindness and love, which can change the human heart.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

It is not unreasonable to want repentance from a wrongdoer before forgiving that wrongdoer, since, in the absence of repentance, hasty forgiveness may harm both the forgiver and the wrongdoer. The forgiver may be harmed by a failure to show self-respect. The wrongdoer may be harmed by being deprived of an important incentive - the desire to be forgiven - that could move him toward repentance and moral rebirth.

It is our responsibility to pray for a peaceful world.

It is possible to continue turning the other cheek when one has stopped counting.

It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.

It is useless to try to adjudicate a long-standing animosity by asking who started it or who is the most wrong. The only sufficient answer is to give up the animosity and try forgiveness, to try to love our enemies and to talk to them and (if we pray) to pray for them. If we can't do any of that, then we must begin again by trying to imagine our enemies' children who, like our children, are in mortal danger because of enmity that they did not cause.

It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.

It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world.

It is wonderful for us to live together in love, in peace and in faith.

It may not be an easy thing to live in sweet fellowship with all those with whom we come in contact; but that is what the grace of God is given to us for.

I trade all my pains for peace of God.

It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.

Its all about perception in life, For some One minus One = One & for some its Zero.That's the only difference.

It is just a simple to forgive anyone, while, it is not the simple to forget the suffering and pain of life caused by anyone.

It is only when one knows the unutterability of the name of God that one can utter the name of Jesus Christ; it is only when one loves life and the earth so much that without them everything seems to be over that one may believe in the resurrection and a new world; it is only when one submits to God's law that one may speak of grace; and it is only when God's wrath and vengeance are hanging as grim realities over the heads of one's enemies that something of what it means to love and forgive them can touch our hearts.

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

It is the quiet space between the sounds that force transformation, allowing the chaotic noise of life to become Soul comforting music.

It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them.

It is the wise man who can thoroughly examine and entertain a thought without feeling required to act on it.

It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you’re offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger.

It is we humans that need to forgive others and ourselves for all wrongs, no matter what they may be. Only by forgiveness can we move higher up in our ascension and see in truth, there was never really anything there that needed forgiving

It is when we forgive for no reason that we have truly forgiven.

It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.

It’s all about “Priorities” There's No Such Thing as "Busy

It's easy to love But hard to forgive

It’s easy to be hard on yourself, but true self-love also lies in forgiving yourself when your plans get disrupted—life happens. Surrender and keep pushing.

It seems we need someone to know us as we are--with all we have done--and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please. ...for...others it seems there must be a person to redeem us to ourselves. It isn't enough, apparently, to know oneself. To forgive oneself in secret.

...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul...

It seems that great truth is always written by the listener and not by the mouthpiece. EVERY word that Jesus spoke is only available to us because a listener wrote them down.

It's easy to preach forgiveness when your name is not on the manifest

It seems like every day you have to deal with problems, interpersonal problems, survival, and so on and so forth. But you only have one problem and there is one solution to that problem. Isn’t that nice to think it is so simple? If there is such a thing as truth, it will be simple – one problem and one solution. If I perceive the problem to be in the world, it cannot be solved because the Holy Spirit is the one answer to that one problem and the Holy Spirit is in the mind. God did not place the answer where the problem was not. He did not place the answer out on the screen. He did not place the answer in the world; he placed the answer in the mind of the sleeping Son. And that is where the Holy Spirit is.

It's impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead...if we continue to trip on what is behind.

It's not enough to 'like' and retweet. Best we express our love to all that we meet.

ITS nomimal without all on transfer of regard, that weight of a measure of lines cannot be equal in comparison. The want of privacy is a need of personality not character. Only through devotional love not modernity can you coolect the past, present and future. Timeless is not what you think or hear. Patience is not any big reveal. Never see make how all free?

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.

It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch. " He finally whispered, "We also need to forgive ourselves.