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- You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing…
- We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.
- Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.
- God is the original, master forgiver. Each time we grope our reluctant way through the minor miracle of forgiving, we are imitating his style. I…
- When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with…
- Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.
- Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He…
- The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.
- I believe that we should, on biblical grounds, tell all parents of mentally disabled children that God loves their children, regrets terribly that they are…
- The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
- Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees reality…
- The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.
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