279- The Album of Memories

 

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Count Enzenberg asked Prince Bismark to write something in his album of memories. Prince Bismark noticed that somebody wrote, “Throughout my life, I learned two essential rules for wisdom: the first is to forgive a lot; and the second is to never forget.”

Another person wrote, “A little forgetfulness does not prevent honest forgiveness.” Bismark wrote, “I learned to forget a lot and to ask for a lot of forgiveness.”

→ English translation of the story here at St-Takla.org: "ألبوم" الذكريات.

God, You asked me to forgive my brother,

“Up to seventy-seven times” (Matt. 18.22).

Let me forget all that I think is bad.

Let me acknowledge my own sins,

To ask forgiveness from my brethren.

The Tenth Man

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