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title: "4 Grant Forgiveness Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [It's not our ability to get forgiveness that saves us. It's out ability to grant forgiveness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeri-smith-ready/it-s-not-our-ability-to-get-forgiveness-that-saves-us-it-s-out/)

[Jeri Smith-Ready](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeri-smith-ready/)

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> [Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-jeremiah/jesus-himself-stresses-that-only-those-who-grant-forgiveness-will/)

[David Jeremiah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-jeremiah/)

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> [It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-far-pleasanter-to-injure-and-afterwards-beg-forgiveness-than-to/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthieu-ricard/to-grant-forgiveness-to-someone-who-has-truly-changed-is-not-a-way-of/)

[Matthieu Ricard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthieu-ricard/)

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