Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
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