"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
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How beautiful and yet how rare is forgiveness! Christ taught His disciples to forgive their enemies, and in
this respect as in all others, He is our great example. He said amid
the agonies of the crucifixion, "Father forgive them." A deaf mute being
asked, "What is forgiveness?" took a pencil and wrote, "It is the odor
which a flower yields when trampled upon," and Sir William Jones has
given us the following extract from the Persian poet Sadi - The
sandal-tree perfumes when riven, The axe that laid it low; let man, who
hopes to be forgiven, forgive and bless his foe.
In a world
where over 50% of our movies center on revenge and hate, bitterness and
the ability to Rambo your enemy is fashionable, and the virtue of
forgiveness seems old fashioned. But if truth be told few things make a
man truly great as the power to forgive. If in doubt ask Nelson Mandela.
