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God’s way of forgiving is thorough and hearty—both to forgive and to forget; and if thine be not so, thou hast no portion of His.

— Robert Leighton Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little, and others much.

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Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

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It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.

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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

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