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For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we ho

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? – Bell Hooks

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Im so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. – Bell Hooks

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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. – Bell Hooks

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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world thats becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. – Bell Hooks

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I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and thats my belief. I still dont know what Christian means. Im a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness. – Sherri Shepherd

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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. – Lewis B. Smedes, “Forgiveness — The Power to Change the Past,” Christianit

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The things the writers have me doing on Suburgatory are insane. I think they think its easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. – Cheryl Hines

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Forgiveness is love in its most noble form. – Anon.

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