To Miss Out On Joy Is To

If You Cannot Free People From Their Wrongs And See Them As The Needy People They Are, You Enslave Yourself To Your Own Painful Past And By Fastening Yourself To The Past, You Let Your Hate Become Your Future.

Once We Have Forgiven, However, We Get A New Freedom To Forget. This Time Forgetting Is A Sign Of Health; It Is Not A Trick To Avoid Spiritual Surgery. We Can Forget Because We Have Been Healed. But Even If It Is Easier To Forget After We Forgive, We Should Not Make Forgetting A Test Of Our Forgiving. The Test Of Forgiving Lies With Healing The Lingering Pain Of The Past, Not With Forgetting The Past Has Ever Happened.

Don't Do It Quickly, But Don't Wait Too Long... If We Wait Too Long To Forgive, Our Rage Settles In And Claims Squatter's Rights To Our Souls.

I Have Discovered That Most People Who Tell Me That They Cannot Forgive A Person Who Wronged Them Are Handicapped By A Mistaken Understanding Of What Forgiving Is.

Forgiving Is, First Of All, A Way Of Helping Yourself To Get Free Of The Unfair Pain Somebody Caused You.