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There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
– Alan Paton

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  1. There’s a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. – Alan Paton
  2. There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man. – Alan Paton
  3. But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences. – Alan Paton
  4. God forgive me for what I’ve done. God forgive me for what I will do. And God forgive me for what I can’t do because my religion won’t let me – Stanley Victor Paskavich
  5. Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  6. If it must be enjoyed, then it must be done. And if it must be done, then it must be done well. If it is done well, it is enjoyed well. – Israelmore Ayivor
  7. I’m too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself. – Lillian Hellman
  8. Then our crime’s worse than a murderer’s. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law. – Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  9. Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother. – Barbara Kingsolver
  10. I believe what Jesus said was, ‘I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is required that you forgive all men. – Orson Scott Card
  11. …you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them – either way you have to forgive… – John Geddes
  12. Listen until you’re the smartest.Learn until you’re the wisest.Live until you’re the merriest.Love until you’re the kindest. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  13. When it’s all been said and done…There’s hell of a lot more said, than done. – Alan VanMeter
  14. Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you. – John Scott
  15. You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done. – Orrin Woodward
  16. To forgive is an act of compassion… It’s not done because people deserve it. It’s done because they need it. – Joss Whedon
  17. Sometimes we want to keep the battle going…until at last we we cut ourselves free. I don’t forgive you to give to you, I forgive you to give to me. – Kate McGahan
  18. Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier. – Jaleigh Johnson
  19. Never do an enemy a small injury. – Niccol Machiavelli
  20. The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done. – Charles ens
  21. If they say, it can’t be done, Ask, -˜Why not?’ It can be done. It will be done! – Lailah Gifty Akita
  22. What needs to be done must be done. With grace, it will be done. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  23. Sometimes, until you do what you shouldn’t have done, you least remember what you should have done – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  24. Thought we explained, but it does matter how that is understood. Is to say – you are not done until you done! – Praveen Chenna
  25. until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  26. If money is a curse, may God smite me with it, and may I never recover! – Fiddler on the Roof
  27. The Law was never given to gentiles but to Jews only, so why do so many gentiles struggle today with mixing law and grace? – John Paul Warren
  28. That’s the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law. – Anthony Burgess
  29. They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten. – Lisa Kleypas
  30. For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient. – Elizabeth Inchbald
  31. Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age. – Widad Akreyi
  32. Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. – Wilkie Collins
  33. A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness begins on ours. – LG Abell
  34. Your death, strange human. I mean, your injury. No murder, just a little maiming. So I can leave. Maiming’s not so bad. – Eliza Crewe
  35. Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith. – K Howard Joslin
  36. The sudden appearance of pain and pressure are not indicative of an injury, but of the presence of suppressed emotions. – Heidi DuPree
  37. Hold mirth tight against your breast, but answer every injury with bladed heart. – Chris Galford
  38. If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals. – Leo Tolstoy
  39. Sorry, maybe this is the head injury talking, but -¦ what? – Stacey Kade
  40. The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. – Marcus Aurelius

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