He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.
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Related was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and ... JOHN GREEN He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, a... JOHN GREEN ... that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we have to forgive to survive in the labyr... JOHN GREEN I was reminded just why God wants us to forgive. Not simply because it’s the key to a better world... GAYLE FORMAN Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don't want the other person to forget that we forgave IVERN BALL Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee al... BIBLE …she eventually forgave him, because she understood him. WHITNEY OTTO We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth JOHN GREEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. ... S. G. TALLENTYRE Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not: / For He... BIBLE We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. ... FRANCINE RIVERS So I told him I'd sell him a new wheel at cost, and I ordered it, but later he came in and said he'd... BRAD STEWART The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself. TATUM O'NEAL It’s complicated, and I won’t pretend that part of me still feels betrayed by what he did. But o... KAYLEA CROSS And tell Rowan,” Aelin said, fighting her own sob, “that I'm sorry I lied. But tell him it was a... SARAH J. MAAS I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL We did our best, Anna and I. We forgave each other for all we were not. JOHN BANVILLE She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all? CASSANDRA CLARE I think people forgave him for that. He was always such a macho guy, but that night, he wasn't. But ... HANK KAPLAN The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- va... CLAUDIA GRAY His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y... CAROLYN JEWEL She Eleanor Roosevelt got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. RALPH MCGILL She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. RALPH MCGILL She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. RALPH MCGILL We had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with ... JOHN GREEN I watched the black ocean in his eyes and saw this flash behind them and understood what he had mean... T.J. KLUNE The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other ... JOHN PAUL WARREN The first time I saw him, I had gone to scout a real good linebacker that University had. I asked th... BOBBY BURTON Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. LAURENCE STERNE She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were relate... FAY WRAY He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure spec... PATRICIA BRIGGS We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the convers... NEIL GAIMAN (She) tells him that she loves him, tells him that she wants to be with him again sexually, so she d... BARBARA MATTHEWS She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on Eleanor
Roosevelt. RALPH MCGILL No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore. CRAIG GROESCHEL [S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him. LAUREN OLIVER Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but alw... PAUL HOFFMAN He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and th... ANNE MALLORY I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I h... DERRICK JENSEN No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from whi... WOODROW WILSON God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal differe... CRAIG GROESCHEL Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then ho... ALICE HOFFMAN True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him w... GEORGE R. HENDRICK True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him w... GEORGE R. HENDRICK We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Came... JOE MCGINNISS He had appeared beside her because she had wanted him to. She had called him to her, and was calling... ALICE HOFFMAN Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk abo... BUTCH TRUCKS You could definitely hear in his voice that he was sorry for what he did and he expressed that he ha... JARED DUDLEY I know in my mind that she went right up to heaven. I know she forgave her mother. She knows her mot... JENNIFER CZAJKA She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remem... MAHITA VAS It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to s... CARSON MCCULLERS [They] were just praying for him and asking God to deliver him from the spirit that he had, ... The ... DAVID HEMPHILL Having said that, we saw him play the latter part of August and thought he had had enough. He had al... CHUCK LAMAR I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, ... MARCEL PROUST I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him... BARBARA LYNN I had to tell him that I just saw them and they were doing okay. DRAME ABDOULAYA She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense,
Sex to the last. JOHN DRYDEN When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she ha... STIEG LARSSON (It's) not that we didn't think he could do it. He's just never been put in that position for us. An... ARNIE BALL Did she say anything before she died?" he asked. "Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive h... SHERMAN ALEXIE We did make an adjustment. We just took our tackle and shaded him into that gap that he (Larsen) had... DAN HINDS She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm goin... CRAIG GROESCHEL When I was at Florida, I had told him I really liked him. And when he decided to leave Miami, he rem... TOM SLATER She turned to face him. She reached over and touched his hand, hesitantly, gently, amazed that after... NICHOLAS SPARKS She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I didn't know what was going on. That's when I realized that everything had gone through the roof. I... ADAM DURITZ He came very close to playing for Notre Dame. We offered him (a scholarship), we wanted him, but I j... GREG MATTISON My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to stu... EDWIN M. STANTON Well, he did what he had to do. Whatever Kurt feels good about tonight. I wouldn't have done that to... MATT KENSETH He (Bashir) did not get the remission at all. I have just called him and he said that he had receive... LUTFI HAKIM I had a horse in Mexico one time that I rode. He was just bones when I got him. I started feeding hi... ERNEST BORGNINE As soon as he got back and that incident occurred and he spoke right up about it, that is kind of wh... MARQUES HAGANS He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had p... CHRISTINE FEEHAN If she had loved him, he would have opened windows, allowed all of that precious light of hers in sh... AMANDA LANCE He just got to finish the race, you can see the finish line and I think Zambians will never forgive ... FLORENCE MUMBA We weren't going to push him, but I looked at him and he was back in there. You've got to love him. ... DON DUNN John had a lot of people ditch him in the past or would befriend him and not stay in contact. I didn... ANDRE DOBSON She hadn’t needed him to escape that place. But rather than making him angry, it only made him pro... D.B. REYNOLDS It was out of character for him to do this. He just kept saying that he had a surprise for us tomorr... CAROL COSTELLO I was not looking for HIM, he was just always there, the little BOY! I have not seen HIM, because I ... - NIRAV SANCHANIYA I went after him because [the rest of the team] had left, and I was just sitting in the parking lot ... DAINIUS ZUBRUS I'm just so glad I had the time with him that I did. I wanted to hold onto him forever. I really tho... JACKIE SULLIVAN He was asking me what he should do, and at that time I told him that if he had the courage and the h... JOSEPH TOWLE My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wa... KIM HARRISON I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him a... DAVID SOUL She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a ... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD She wondered whether the queen knew. Rowan did. Aedion did. And Arobynn did. He had understood that ... SARAH J. MAAS She forgave them, not because they had asked for forgiveness, since they did no such thing, nor beca... TALIDARI I did bless him at the end of our conversation. I said to him, 'Do you want the forgiveness of God?'... JOSEPH TOWLE There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ... GREG BEHRENDT He has not decided, and we're trying to discourage him from that. I think that he's listening to us ... BRIAN MCELDOWNEY Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams ‘If there was a God, He would no... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
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