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Forgiveness and its Discontents

Glenn Statile

 Presented Originally at Boston College Conference in October, 2008

  1. The Many Facets of Forgiveness

St. Augustine tells us that the full measure of love is to love without measure. This being the case it therefore follows that forgiveness is a perfectly suitable topic to dwell upon in a conference dedicated to the kindred themes of love and friendship, for forgiveness is a gift bestowed upon us by the immeasurable love of God.  In theological terms one might go so far as to say that forgiveness is the gift which continually rescues salvation history and keeps our hopes for eternal life alive.    No less a scribe than William Shakespeare once called upon the attitude of forgiveness in his literary epitaph when  bidding farewell to his loyal public in the epilogue to his final play, The Tempest.   It is at this point that Prospero, the Duke of Milan,  issues the following plea to the audience: 

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Hannah Arendt

Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we 
have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to a single 
deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer’s apprentice, who lacked 
the magic formula to break the spell.

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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
 

Anonymous

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on
the heel that crushes it.

John Arnott

Grace is getting something that you don’t deserve; and mercy is not getting something that you do deserve.    

Francis Bacon