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    Archibald Hart
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    1 John 4:20, Proverbs 24:29, Ephesians 4:31-32, Colossians 3:13, Luke 23:34
    Forgiveness is surrendering my right to hurt you for hurting me.

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    Ambrose of Milan
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    Matthew 6:14-15, Proverbs 20:22, Colossians 3:12-13, Romans 12:19, 1 Peter 3:9, Ephesians 4:31-32, Matthew 5:44
    No one heals himself by wounding another.

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    Source Unknown
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    Genesis 4:3–8 , Exodus 32:19–20 , Proverbs 14:29, Matthew 5:22, Ephesians 4:26–27, Psalm 37:8
    Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything onto which it is poured.

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Genesis 4:6-7 , Proverbs 14:29, Job 5:2, Ephesians 4:31-32, Hebrews 12:15, Psalm 37:8
    Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Genesis 27:41, Exodus 15:23-25 , Job 10:1, Ephesians 4:31 , Hebrews 12:15 , Psalm 73:21-22
    To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you...

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    Wendell Berry
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    1 Peter 3:8, Philippians 2:3-4, Galatians 5:14, Romans 12:10, Ephesians 4:32, Luke 6:31, Matthew 7:12
    Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

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    George Herbert
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    Romans 12:17-21, Romans 3:23, 1 John 1:9, Luke 6:37, Mark 11:25, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32
    He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

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    Benjamin Franklin
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    Matthew 5:23-24, Proverbs 16:32, Colossians 3:8, Ephesians 4:26-27, Proverbs 15:18, Proverbs 14:29, James 1:19-20
    Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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    Kevin Keith
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    Matthew 18:21-35, Luke 17:3-4, Colossians 3:9, 23-24, Ephesians 4:25, Proverbs 10:9, Proverbs 12:22, Proverbs 24:26, Proverbs 6:17, 1 Peter 3:10-12, Luke 6:35, Acts 20:35
    People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you w...

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    R. T. Kendall
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    Romans 12:20-21, James 5:16, Mark 11:25, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32
    The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook-even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.

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    Bert Ghezzi
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    Genesis 4:6-7 , 2 Samuel 17:23 , Jonah 4:1-3 , Matthew 18:21-22, 32-35, Ephesians 4:31-32 , Psalm 37:8
    Resentment is like a poison we carry around inside us with the hope that when we get the chance we can deposit it where it will harm another who has injured us. The fact is that we carry this poison a...

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Romans 12:19, Matthew 5:23-24, Colossians 3:8, Ephesians 4:26-27, Proverbs 15:18, Proverbs 14:29, James 1:19-20
    Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to com...

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    Lewis Smedes
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    Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32, Luke 6:37, Mark 11:25, James 5:16
    We forgive persons, not institutions. We forgive persons for what not for what they are. We forgive persons for what they do to seriously wound us. We forgive persons for what they do to wrong us when...

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    Andree Seu Peterson
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    Matthew 18:21-22, 1 John 1:9, Psalm 32:1, Mark 11:25, Luke 6:37, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:32
    I asked a few people if they’d ever forgiven anyone and what it felt like. They gave me answers so pious I knew they’d never done it…Forgiveness is a brutal mathematical transaction done with fully en...

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    Rupi Kaur
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    1 John 2:9-11, Ephesians 4:31, Proverbs 10:12, Luke 6:27-28, 1 John 3:14-15
    To hate is an easy lazy thing but to love takes strength everyone has but not all are willing to practice.

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    John Stott
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    Matthew 6:14-15, James 2:13, Micah 6:8, Luke 6:36-37, Ephesians 4:32, Colossians 3:12-13
    If I withhold mercy, I have lost touch with the gospel. I have lost touch with God’s undeserved kindness and pardon.

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    John Irving
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    Mark 11:25, James 5:16, Romans 12:17-19, Luke 6:37, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32
    The man who refuses to forgive destroys the bridge over which he himself must cross.

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    Brennan Manning
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    1 Peter 4:8, Acts 7:, Luke 15:11-32, Ephesians 4:32, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
    Jesus said you are to love one another as I have loved you, a love that will possibly lead to the bloody, anguished gift of yourself, a love that forgives seven times seven, that keeps no score of wro...

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    Romans 12:19, Matthew 6:14-15, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:32, 1 Peter 3:9, James 1:20, Proverbs 20:22
    By forgiving another, I am trusting that God is a better justice-maker than I am.

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    Miroslav Volf
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    Romans 3:23, Luke 6:27-28, Ephesians 4:31-32, Colossians 3:13, Matthew 6:14-15, 1 John 1:8-9, Proverbs 24:17-18
    Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

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    Maya Angelou
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    Genesis 4:6-7, Exodus 32:19-20, Job 5:2, Ephesians 4:26-27, Hebrews 12:15, Psalm 37:8
    Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

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    Samuel Johnson
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    Proverbs 15:1 , Job 6:24-25, Ecclesiastes 5:2, James 3:9-10, Ephesians 4:31-32, Psalm 141:3
    Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

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    Oscar Wilde
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    Matthew 18:21-22, Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9, Mark 11:25, Luke 17:3-4, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:32
    Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.

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    Karl Menninger
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    Jeremiah 17:9, Psalm 51:3-4, Ephesians 4:31-32, Proverbs 6:16-19, Isaiah 59:2
    The clergyman cannot minimize sin and maintain his proper role in our culture’. For sin is ‘an implicitly aggressive quality – a ruthlessness, a hurting, a breaking away from God and from the rest of ...

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Ephesians 4:31-32, Colossians 3:15, Proverbs 15:1, James 3:18, 1 Peter 3:9, Isaiah 2:4, Matthew 5:9
    Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    1 Thessalonians 5:15, Romans 12:20-21, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32, Romans 12:14
    I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray; no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession ...

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Ephesians 4:2-3, Colossians 3:12-13, Matthew 6:14-15, Luke 6:37, 2 Peter 3:9, Psalm 103:8, 1 Timothy 1:16
    Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious tha...

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    Lewis B. Smedes
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    Isaiah 43:18-19, Philippians 3:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 4:31-32, Colossians 3:13, Romans 12:17-19, Micah 7:18-19
    Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope ...

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    Author
    W. H. Auden
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    Colossians 3:13, Luke 10:25-37, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 15:11-32, Ephesians 4:2, 1 John 4:19, Romans 5:8, Matthew 22:37-39
    You shall love your crooked neighbor with all your crooked heart.

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Matthew 18:21-22, John 21:15-17, Matthew 18:21-35, 1 John 1:9, Colossians 3:13, Matthew 6:14-15, Ephesians 4:32
    Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is th...
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