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★ Forgive & Forgiveness

Forgive your enemies but never forget their names.  John F Kennedy

 

 

I cannot forgive those who trespass against me any more than I can forgive myself.  The Mystery of Edwin Drood II, Drood at prayer, BBC 2012

 

 

I do forgive thee.  Unnatural though thou art.  The Tempest 2010 starring Helen Mirren & Felicity Jones & Chris Cooper & Russell Brand & Reeve Carney & Tom Conti & Alan Cumming & Dimon Hounsou & Alfred Molina & Ben Whishaw et al, director Julie Taymor

 

 

Pardon me, God, I knew not what I did;

And pardon, father, for I knew not thee.  William Shakespeare, Richard Duke of York II v 69-70, Soldier to King Henry

 

 

At the last

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil.

With them, forgive yourself.  William Shakespeare, A Winter’s Tale V I 4&5, Cleomenes

 

 

God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here.  Elie Wiesel, at Auschwitz

 

 

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.  Cosimo de’ Medici

 

 

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel.  Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.  Catherine Ponder

 

 

The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.  Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

True forgiveness is not an action after the fact; it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.  David Ridge

 

 

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.  Isaac Friedmann

 

 

Forgotten is forgiven.  F Scott Fitzgerald

 

 

I think the message of repentance, the message of forgiveness, are deeply personal concepts ... I helped negotiate a Good Friday Agreement that got the people who shot me out of prison.  Jerry Adams, The Bible: A History: Jesus

 

 

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

 

But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.  Matthew 6:14&15

 

 

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

 

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.  Matthew 7:1&2

 

 

And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

 

But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.  Matthew 11:25&26

 

 

Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:  Luke 6:37

 

 

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

 

And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.  Luke 17:3&4

 

 

Father, forgive them: for they know not what they do.  Luke 23:24

 

 

Why does this man thus talk blasphemies?  Who can forgive sins but God alone?  Mark 2:7

 

 

And vie one with another for forgiveness from your Lord, and for a paradise as wide as are the heavens and the earth, prepared for those who ward off (evil);  

 

Those who spend (of that which Allah hath given them) in ease and in adversity, those who control their wrath and are forgiving toward mankind; Allah loveth the good;   

 

And those who, when they do an evil thing or wrong themselves, remember Allah and implore forgiveness for their sins – Who forgiveth sins save Allah only? – and will not knowingly repeat (the wrong) they did.   

 

The reward of such will be forgiveness from their Lord, and Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide for ever – a bountiful reward for workers!   Koran 3:133-136 

 

 

Forgiveness is only incumbent on Allah toward those who do evil in ignorance (and) then turn quickly (in repentance) to Allah.  These are they toward whom Allah relenteth.  Allah is ever Knower, Wise.  

 

The forgiveness is not for those who do ill-deeds until, when death attendeth upon one of them, he saith: Lo!  I repent now; nor yet for those who die while they are disbelievers.  For such We have prepared a painful doom.  Koran 4:17&18   

 

 

Keep to forgiveness (O Muhammad), and enjoin kindness, and turn away from the ignorant.  Koran 7:199

  

 

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.  Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin

 

 

To err is human; to forgive, divine.  Alexander Pope

 

 

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.  Emo Philips

 

 

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.  Scott Adams

 

 

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.  Ausonius

 

 

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.  Desmond Tutu

 

 

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.  Nelson Mandela, speech 7th January 1996

 

 

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.  Nelson Mandela

 

 

I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption.  I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form.  There’s no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway.  As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man’s debt, or even to take his place in prison.  That would be self-sacrificing.  But you may not assume his actual crimes as if they were your own; for one thing you did not commit them and might have died rather than do so; for another this impossible action would rob him of individual responsibility.  So the whole apparatus of absolution and forgiveness strikes me as positively immoral, while the concept of revealed truth degrades the concept of free intelligence by purportedly relieving us of the hard task of working out the ethical principles for ourselves.  Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

 

 

God may forgive you, father, but I never will.  The Borgias s1e5: The Borgias in Love, Lucretia, opening scene: Rodrigos dream, Showtime 2011

 

 

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.  Robert Frost

 

 

Forgive, O Lord my little jokes on Thee

And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.  Robert Frost, Cluster of Faith 1962

 

 

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.  Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

 

 

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.  Heinrich Heine

 

 

Blanche: But then he came back.  He returned with a box of roses to beg my forgiveness.  He implored my forgiveness.  But some things are not forgivable.  Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable.  Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

 

 

More than 1,000 women are murdered in Pakistan each year by male relatives who believe the victims have dishonoured their families.  A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness ***** 2015

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