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- Forgiveness is the key that can unshackle us from a past that will not rest in the grave of things over and done with. As…
- I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it.…
- 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…
- When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you…
- Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is…
- 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.
- Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.
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