In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.
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.
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.
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.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
When you remain angry with another person, you give away your emotional control to that person each time you think of him or here. You allow him or her to control your emotions at long distance. By not forgiving, you allow that person to run your emotional life, exactly as if he or she were right there with you and the situation was occurring all over again.
Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.
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.'
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.
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.
A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
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.
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
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.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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