You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

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.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

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.

Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son.

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.

God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

I believe that we should, on biblical grounds, tell all parents of mentally disabled children that God loves their children, regrets terribly that they are disabled, and will, when they die, carry them gently into a heavenly life where every person is forever whole.

Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance.

No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.

No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.

Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees reality with total accuracy; we all need others to correct our own vision.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word.

Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck.

Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human.

The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.

The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.

The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.

We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.

What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty.

When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.

True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume with good reason that this is what the apostles implied.

It takes one person to forgive it takes two people to be reunited.

God is not a doormat nor should anyone else be a doormat.

We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past we long to recreate segments of our private histories but we are stuck with them.

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.

Forgiving is loves toughest work and loves biggest risk.

The Holy Spirit thank God often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.