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| | * '''Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.''' | | * '''Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.''' |
| − | ** [[Desmond Tutu]], as quoted in ''Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Healing the Shattered Soul'' (2002) by Dalene Fuller Rogers and Harold G Koenig, p. 31 | + | ** [[Desmond Tutu]], as quoted in ''Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Healing the Shattered Soul'' (2002) by Dalene Fuller Rogers and Harold G Koenig, p. 31 |
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| | == Quotes == | | == Quotes == |
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| | * '''Forgiveness does not [[change]] the [[past]] but it does enlarge the [[future]].''' | | * '''Forgiveness does not [[change]] the [[past]] but it does enlarge the [[future]].''' |
| − | ** Paul Lewis Boese, in ''Quote : The Weekly Digest'', Vol. 53, No. 8, p. 146 (19 February 1967) | + | ** Paul Lewis Boese, in ''Quote : The Weekly Digest'', Vol. 53, No. 8, p. 146 (19 February 1967) |
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| | * '''Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.''' | | * '''Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.''' |
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| | * What if this cursed hand<br>Were thicker than itself with brother's blood<br>Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves<br>To wash it white as snow? | | * What if this cursed hand<br>Were thicker than itself with brother's blood<br>Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves<br>To wash it white as snow? |
| − | ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Hamlet]]'' (1600-02), Act III, scene 3, line 43 | + | ** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Hamlet]]'' (1600–02), Act III, scene 3, line 43 |
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| | * I pardon him, as [[God]] shall pardon me. | | * I pardon him, as [[God]] shall pardon me. |
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| | * '''Behold affronts and indignities which the world thinks it right never to pardon, which the Son of God endures with a Divine meekness!''' Let us cast at the feet of [[Jesus]] that false honor, that quick sense of affronts, which exaggerates every thing, and pardons nothing, and, above all, that [[devil]]ish determination in resenting injuries. | | * '''Behold affronts and indignities which the world thinks it right never to pardon, which the Son of God endures with a Divine meekness!''' Let us cast at the feet of [[Jesus]] that false honor, that quick sense of affronts, which exaggerates every thing, and pardons nothing, and, above all, that [[devil]]ish determination in resenting injuries. |
| − | ** [[Queen Elizabeth]], p. 252 | + | ** [[Queen Elizabeth]], p. 252 |
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| | * "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 again made clean." - [[Dag Hammarskjold]] | | * "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 again made clean." - [[Dag Hammarskjold]] |