Spoken Forgiveness, No Matter How Heartfelt, Works

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.

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 Discover That The Real Prisoner Was Yourself.

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.

The First And Often Only Person To Be Healed By Forgiveness Is The Person Who Does The Forgiveness... When We Genuinely Forgive, We Set A Prisoner Free And Then Discover That The Prisoner We Set Free Was Us.

Can You Stop Your Memory On A Dime, Put It In Reverse, And Spin It In Another Direction The Way You Can Reverse Direction On A Tape Recorder? We Cannot Forget On Command. So We Just Have To Let The Forgetting Happen As It Will; We Shouldn't Rush It, And We Certainly Should Not Doubt The Genuineness Of Our Forgiving If We Happen To Remember. The Really Important Thing Is That We Have The Power To Forgive What We Still Do Remember.