Forgiveness

Forgiveness is an act that works through God;
Forgiveness is an act of God in man;
Forgiveness is the work of God’s great love;
Forgiveness is an art that man must learn!

Men with good sense will restrain their anger;
Such men defer their anger for long times;
To forgive transgressions is man’s glory;
To hold one’s tongue is done by people smart.

Forgiving is an act almost divine;
Forgiving is something not all can do;
Forgiving someone is too tough at times;
Forgiving fully is done by just few!

To preach is easy; forgiving is tough;
Forgiving is an honor of men wise;
If God should forgive us, we must forgive;
Like God, we must be slow to anger too.

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poem by John Celes
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

quote by Saint Francis of Assisi
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

quote by George Bernard Shaw
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw in Man and Superman, 1903
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God forgives the sin of gluttony.

Catalan proverbs
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Pardon Me

Pardon me while i burst
Pardon me while i burst
A decade ago, i never thought i would be.
A twenty three on the verge of spontaneous combustion woe is me
But i guess that it comes with the territory.
An ominous landscape of never-ending calamity.
I need you to hear. i need you to see.
That i have had all i can take
And exploding seems like a definite possibility
To me
So pardon me while i burst into flames.
I've had enough of the world, and its people's mindless games
So pardon me while i burn, and rise above the flame
Pardon me, pardon me. i'll never be the same.
Not, two days ago i was having a look in a book
And i saw a picture of a guy fried up above his knees
I said i can relate
Cause lately i've been thinking of combustication as a welcomed vacation from.
The burdens of the planet earth, like gravity, hypocrisy, and the perils of being in 3-d...
And thinking so much differently.

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song performed by Incubus
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Forgiving Is Too Distant From Their Hearts

Not too many,
Are willing...
To forget with an ending.
With a forgiving,
To begin.
Ready they are not!
Forgiving is too distant from their hearts.

What's been done,
To many...
Sits,
Deep within...
With a tearing them apart.
Forgiving is too distant from their hearts.

No matter what some folks do,
Forgiving is too distant from their hearts.
Some people show they are cruel,
To forgive them is too distant from some hearts.
And when those people choose to forgive,

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The offender never pardons.

quote by George Herbert
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God pardons the ignorant.

Berber proverbs
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Gilbert: Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

line from The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde (1891)
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The pardon

You must pardon, to honour your kingdom.
You must get pardon, to dropp your burden.
No life has been past without such a need
To pardon as well as to get pardoned.
25.07.2004

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The offender never pardons.

English proverbs
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Forgiving and pardoning

To forgive, you must feel you have been hit.
To pardon, you must feel you have been hurt.
When you are hit or hurt if you don’t feel so
You surpass forgivers and pardoners.
Debts can be written off but not gift.
18.01.2010

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.

quote by Dale E. Turner
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He who pardons easily invites offense.

quote by Pierre Corneille
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The Other Man

(ian hunter)
I forgive you when you cant look straight into my eye
I forgive you when you never want to hold my hand
I forgive you cause youre all Ive got and I love you
But Ill never forgive the other man
I forgive you even though I know the secret you keep
I forgive you even though you dont give a damn
I forgive you cause deep inside youre part of me
But Ill never forgive the other man
Somewhere in the night hes calling
And somewhere in your heart youre falling
Ill forgive you when you stay out late and you never phone
Ill forgive you even though Ill never understand
Ill forgive you cause youre all Ive got and I love you
But Ill never forgive the other man
Somewhere in the night hes calling
And somewhere in your heart youre falling
Ill forgive you when you stay out late and you never phone
Ill forgive you even though Ill never understand
Ill forgive you cause youre all Ive got and I love you

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song performed by Ian Hunter
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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

quote by William Congreve
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

quote by Henry Ward Beecher
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God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?

quote by Alan Paton
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A contented stomach, a forgiving heart; but an empty stomach pardons nothing.

Sicilian proverbs
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