Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Forgiveness
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.
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A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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