“The face forgives the mirror, the worm forgives the plough, the question begs the answer, can you forgive me somehow?”
"All the World is Green", Blood Money (2002).
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“And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.”
My Specter, st. 14
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)
Source: Earthsea Books, The Tombs of Atuan (1971), Chapter 10, "The Anger of the Dark"
“It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.”
Source: Lion's Heat
Forgiveness, Liahona, Nov 2005, 81–84.
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
"Interview to the Press" in Karachi about the execution of Bhagat Singh (23 March 1931); published in Young India (2 April 1931), reprinted in Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Online Vol. 51. Gandhi begins by making a statement on his failure "to bring about the commutation of the death sentence of Bhagat Singh and his friends." He is asked two questions. First: "Do you not think it impolitic to forgive a government which has been guilty of a thousand murders?" Gandhi replies: "I do not know a single instance where forgiveness has been found so wanting as to be impolitic." In a follow-up question, Gandhi is asked: "But no country has ever shown such forgiveness as India is showing to Britain?" Gandhi replies: "That does not affect my reply. What is true of individuals is true of nations. One cannot forgive too much. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
1930s
“Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.”
Source: Any Man of Mine
“If I can't forgive him, the Lord won’t forgive me.”
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