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- The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision.…
- 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…
- We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes…
- Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.
- Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were the ones people…
- Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust…
- Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can.…
- Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we…
- Some people ask who they are and expect their feelings to tell them. But feelings are flickering flames that fade after every fitful stimulus. Some…
- Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without…
- 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…
- 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…
- My father was only thirty-one when he died of a heart attack, much too young for a father to die and leave his young wife…
- As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.
- True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with…
- God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.
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