Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

One can forgive but one should never forget.

You can always forgive, you just can't really forget.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget?

Good to forgive, Best to forget.

When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with a violin. Begin with the basics. If you forget, you will not forgive at all. You can never forgive people for things you have forgotten about. You need to forgive precisely because you have not forgotten what someone did; your memory keeps the pain alive long after the hurt has stopped. Remembering is the storage of pain. It is why you need to be healed in the first place.

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

What have I to forgive and whom?

We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.

I can forgive, I just can't forget.

Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.

The best way to get even is to forget.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.