{"quotes":[{"text":"It is not unreasonable to want repentance from a wrongdoer before forgiving that wrongdoer, since, in the absence of repentance, hasty forgiveness may harm both the forgiver and the wrongdoer. The forgiver may be harmed by a failure to show self-respect. The wrongdoer may be harmed by being deprived of an important incentive - the desire to be forgiven - that could move him toward repentance and moral rebirth.","author":"Jeffrie G. Murphy","tags":["forgiveness","forgiveness-therapy","getting-even","repentance","revenge","self-respect","therapy","wrongdoer"],"id":30626,"author_id":"Jeffrie+G.+Murphy"},{"text":"Keep dreaming,Keep hoping,Keep lovingKeep giving,keep motivating,Keep forgiving,Keep praying,Keep tithing,Keep sharing your testimony.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["dream-big","dreaming-dreams","dreams-come-true","dreams-inspirational","forgiveness","forgiveness-and-love","forgiveness-chance-love-equality","forgiveness","forgiveness-therapy","giving","giving-advice","giving-and-receiving","giving-away","giving-love","giving-your-best","hope","hope-for-each-day","hopeful","hopeful-and-encouraging","motivating","motivating","pray-without-ceasing","prayer-life","praying","praying-for-enemies","praying-for-love","praying-mind","tithing","title"],"id":72616,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Forgiveness opens your life for an abundance of positive things.","author":"Tara Estacaan","tags":["change-your-life","forgiveness-therapy","life","light","love"],"id":124335,"author_id":"Tara+Estacaan"},{"text":"Hold fast to the love of your life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","emotional-healing","forgiveness-therapy","inspirational","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","love","love-one-another","marriage","married-life","romance","support","wise-words"],"id":163533,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"One great help here - and I make no claim that it is the only help or even a necessary condition for forgiveness - is sincere repentance on the part of the wrongdoer. When I am wronged by another, a great part of the injury - over and above any physical harm I may suffer - is the insulting or degrading message that has been given to me by the wrongdoer: the message that I am less worthy than he is, so unworthy that he may use me merely as a means or object in service to his desires and projects. Thus failing to resent(or hastily forgiving) the wrongdoer runs the risk that I am endorsing that very immoral message for which the wrongdoer stands. If the wrongdoer sincerely repents, however, he now joins me in repundiating the degrading and insulting message - allowing me to relate to him (his new self) as an equal without fear that a failure to resent him will be read as a failure to resent what he hs done.","author":"Jeffrie G. Murphy","tags":["degrading-message","forgiveness","forgiveness-therapy","injury","repentance","suffering","treat-like-an-object","unworthiness"],"id":192627,"author_id":"Jeffrie+G.+Murphy"},{"text":"You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["forgiveness","forgiveness","forgiveness-therapy","mind-power","stephen-richards-","stephen-richards-self-help"],"id":297734,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"It is gracious to overlook and offence.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["forgive-and-forget","forgiven","forgiveness","forgiveness-and-letting-go","forgiveness-chance-love","forgiveness-chance-love-equality","forgiveness","forgiveness-therapy","forgiving-others","grace","grace-and-divine","grace-and-favor","grace-and-mercy","grace-of-god","offence","offenders"],"id":401801,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Forgiveness is strength.The strength to move ahead without any resentment.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["animosity","faith","forgive-and-forget","forgiveness","forgiveness","forgiveness-therapy","forgiving-others","hate","resentment","second-chance","self-awareness","self-empowerment","spiritual","strength-of-will","strength"],"id":428891,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}