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  • Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

    Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company
  • Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

  • But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.

    Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.81, Harvest House Publishers
  • Forgiveness is the final form of love.

  • Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

  • Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

    Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.57, CLC Publications
  • You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.

  • Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

    "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.
  • He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

  • An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

    Eye   Forgiving   World  
  • How many times should you forgive your household bruiser? You should not even think about forgiving him. Not yet. Not as long as he has his foot on your neck. Your problem at this point is not forgiving. Your problem is how to get out of his reach. Once you get away from him, you can think about forgiving him.

  • When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

  • Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving. Acknowledge that and go easy on yourself. Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. Forgiveness is a powerful yet challenging tool that will support and honor you, even in the most extreme circumstances.

    Forgiveness   Hurt   Pain  
  • Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

  • By not forgiving, by not letting wrongs go, we aren't getting back at anyone. We are merely punishing ourselves by barricading our own hearts.

  • In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

    Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.120, Anchor
  • Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him...even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven...Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.

    Hurt   Feet   Forgiving  
  • “I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

    "Gems of Truth & Beauty".
  • Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

    Marlene Dietrich's ABC (1962)
  • Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception of reality. As we try to bend the world to accommodate our resentment, fear, and selfishness, we become less accurate in understanding the world. This eventually destroys our ability to cope successfully with life.

  • Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

    Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster
  • You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

  • To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

  • A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

  • The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?

    Liars   Self   Order  
    "Dear Sugar, The Rumpus advice Column #68: The bad things you did". therumpus.net. March 24, 2011.
  • Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

  • The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

    The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"
  • Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

    "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.
  • Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

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