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Forgiveness in Marriage

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future."

- Bernard Meltzer



"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."

- Lewis B. Smedes



"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

- Alexander Pope



"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."

- Marianne Williamson



"People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on."

- Bill Cosby



"One forgives to the degree that one loves."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld



"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast."

- Marlene Dietrich



"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."

- Norman Cousins



"It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited."

- Lewis B. Smedes



"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."

- Jean Paul



"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself."

- Publilius Syrus



"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on."

- Alice Duer Miller



"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."

- Gerald Jampolsky



"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."

- George MacDonald



"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."

- Hannah More



"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."

- Dag Hammarskjold



"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."

- William Arthur Ward



"A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers."

- Ruth Bell Graham



"Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins."

- Langdon Mitchell



"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. "

- Peter Ustinov

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