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

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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 for our future.

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

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When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

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When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.

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Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury.

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Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

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Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.

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You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

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Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

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Nationality: American

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Born: Unknown

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