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Tag: forgiveness, understanding

I can always forgive where I understand.

forgiveness, understanding

Marilynne Robinson

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. … If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.

forgiveness, understanding

…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

forgiveness, understanding

I can always forgive where I understand.

forgiveness, understanding

Marilynne Robinson

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. … If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.

forgiveness, understanding

…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

forgiveness, understanding