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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch. -- Park Chan-wook
Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us. -- Adam Hamilton
Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens. -- Richard Rohr
I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness. -- Dick Gephardt
In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness -- Bill Moyers
It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life. -- Jack Kornfield
God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures. -- Philip Yancey
Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness. -- Dave Hunt
My hope is that this movie will affect people on a very profound level and reach them with a message of faith, hope, love and forgiveness. -- Mel Gibson
Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies. -- Sandra Cisneros
"Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness-adoption into His family- fellowship with His people-freedom from the penalty of sin- liberation from the power of sin." -- Billy Graham
... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed. -- Hannah Hurnard
When you have your heart broken wide, you are also open to things of beauty as well as things of sadness. Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains, we still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies. -- Sandra Cisneros
Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is. -- Patricia Heaton
To pine for an alternative past is a waste of energy. In the pristine world of your infinite spiritual self, there is no sin or negative energy. There is only compassion, learning, and unconditional love and forgiveness. Remind yourself and those around you of this fact. In the light of God, everything is healed and seen to be perfect. -- Stuart Wilde
I knew that my heart and mind would always be tempted to feel anger--to find blame and hate. But I resolved that when the negative feelings came upon me, I wouldn't wait for them to grow or fester. I would always turn immediately to the Source of all true power: I would turn to God and let His love and forgiveness protect and save me. -- Immaculee Ilibagiza
Self love and forgiveness is a liberation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Unconditional love and forgiveness are the sources of eternal happiness. -- Debasish Mridha
With weapons we can kill our enemies; with love and forgiveness we can win them. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
We experience prosperity in our relationships as we learn to love, forgive, and receive love and forgiveness. -- Paul Silway
None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It's by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy. -- J.B. McGee
Lord, help me to have Your love and forgiveness in my heart. Enable me to live in peace, tranquility, simplicity, and good health. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. -- Stormie Omartian
He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and love his enemies; but the joyful feeling of love and forgiveness of his enemies filled his soul. -- Leo Tolstoy
Whatever comes our way, whatever battle we have raging inside of us, we always have a choice. It is our choices that makes us who we are, and we always have a choice to do what's right ~ Let love and forgiveness reign. -- Spiderman 3
My job isn't to go around judging people. Priests are meant to teach love and forgiveness. That to me is the essence of being a Christian. And trying to find that love and forgiveness in ourselves and others every day should be a challenge that we want to achieve. -- Rosamund Lupton
There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124) -- Stephen Levine
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness. -- Michele Bachmann
The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love. -- Gary Zukav
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. -- Bryant H. McGill
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love. -- Mahavira
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. -- William P. Young
True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open. -- Gangaji
I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance. -- Kristin Chenoweth
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. -- George Foreman
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. -- Richard Rohr
When everything around you seems bleak, sick and empty - the antidote is forgiveness and love of yourself, and others, plus a dollop of gratitude. -- Jan Hellriegel
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. -- Dalai Lama
I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!! -- Susan Smith
When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability. -- Jimmy Carter
It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us. -- Naomie Harris
I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred. -- Abdul Qadeer Khan
A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness. -- Billy Ray Cyrus
In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us. -- Jack Kornfield
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love. -- Jimmy Carter
God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families... When a man and a woman come together and say 'I do,' they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids. -- Kirk Cameron
Know that truth, forgiveness, and love can heal the world. Imagine if all of us could be truthful with ourselves, start forgiving everyone, and start loving everyone. We would no longer be selfish, gossiping would be over, and we would no longer judge one another. The world would become a place where all of us live in love. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Forgiveness is choosing to love. -- Mahatma Gandhi
One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness. -- Paulo Coelho
Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time. -- Lisa Unger
What power has love but forgiveness? -- William Carlos Williams
Forgiveness should go hand-in-hand with love. -- Thomas S. Monson
Love is an endless act of forgiveness. -- Jan Karon
Forgiveness is the final form of love. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Love is an act of endless forgiveness. -- Jean Vanier
Forgiveness is a form of the highest love -- Ma Jaya
Love cannot last without a foundation of forgiveness. -- Dan B. Allender
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted. -- Meher Baba
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts. -- Mary Boykin Chesnut
Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness. -- Darren Johnson
A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness. -- Glenn Close
I free myself from hatred through forgiveness and love. -- Paulo Coelho
Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there. -- Donna Jo Napoli
Forgiveness is a selfless gift of love to others. -- Jo M
The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness. -- Marion D. Hanks
Forgiveness is a powerful expression of the love within our soul. -- Anthony Douglas
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. -- Laozi
Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life. -- P. Remes
Love is a Dance set on the stage of Forgiveness and Grace. -- Todd Stocker
Forgiveness can be viewed as love, But love doesn't always guarantee forgiveness. -- Gisclerc Morisset
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is a perception of the mind that comes from forgiveness and love. -- Debasish Mridha
Love is about forgiveness. And since I love you, you should forgive me. -- Jarod Kintz
The 3 most powerful resources you have available to you : love, prayer and forgiveness. -- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love. -- Louise Hay
Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place. -- Deepak Chopra
Inevitable is not the same as immediate, Sieh--and love does not mandate forgiveness. -- N. K. Jemisin
Families will always have their trials; be living examples of love, forgiveness, and care -- Pope Francis
We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God's wrath and get God's love. -- Philip Yancey
The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness. -- Ravi Zacharias
My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance. -- Sherman Alexie
Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit. -- Peter Ustinov
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. -- Peter Ustinov
I'm just saying love has a lot to do with the power of forgiveness. -- Sawyer Bennett
Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself. -- Dalai Lama
Happiness is a state of awareness, which comes from tranquility, service, love, grace, and forgiveness. -- Debasish Mridha
Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. -- Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is the flower of love and kindness; it only grows in the bravest heart. -- Debasish Mridha
I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love. -- Deb Caletti
Practice mercy and forgiveness throughout as a lesson that symbolizes the love shown through his crucifixion. -- Unarine Ramaru
Their lips were too thin to ask forgiveness, and their minds too mean to understand love. -- Jane Yolen
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness. -- Dalai Lama
Forgiveness is the best gift of love and kindness that we can give to our enemies. -- Debasish Mridha
Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power. -- Gary Zukav
You can't have real love without operating in forgiveness. Love keeps giving the other person another chance. -- Joyce Meyer
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . . -- Wilferd Peterson
Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance. -- Wilferd Peterson
Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships. -- David Jeremiah
Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness. -- Nicholas Sparks
God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us. -- Paulo Coelho
When you hear the haunting melody of guilt and shame, drown it out with God's song of forgiveness and love. -- Katy Kauffman
Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion. -- George MacDonald
People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness. -- Sanaya Roman
What power has love but forgiveness?In other wordsby its interventionwhat has been donecan be undone.What good is it otherwise~? -- William Carlos Williams
It turns out that there are many powers of the heart--among them intuition, intention, gratitude, forgiveness, resilience, and, of course, love. -- Baptist de Pape
Consistently practice love and everything that falls under the category of love: gratitude, laughter, friendship, joy, forgiveness, acceptance, peace, and trust. -- Renee Marino
Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too. -- Kate DiCamillo
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval. -- Mark Twain
In essence, we are deeper than being; we are character, which contains the conscious forces of love, justice, kindness, faith, and forgiveness. -- Garey Gordon
Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love. -- Pope Francis
The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ's forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify. -- Jenn Thoman
I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too. -- Katherine Applegate
The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness. -- Wendell Berry
My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us. -- Billy Graham
It's good to learn early that every show is a family---complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness... -- Kristin Chenoweth

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