Unforgiveness,splinter in your breastbone, lives there lodged like a small tree.Withers in winter, looms in spring. Its fruit is sweet on first bite, then turns into the taste of your own flesh.

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

Life’s too short not to forgive.

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...

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.

Forgiveness comes later in life, after you’ve created enough disasters of your own.

I was wrong. I should have never doubted you. I do trust you. I love you, and I can’t do this anymore. I don’t want to be…” He struggled to find the right words. “…without...

I had to clear up my messy life. By letting go of the debris and filth, I have come to a deeper, more soulful beauty and clarity like an oasis in the desert. From that...

This is the difference time createsWe bleed our misbehaviorAnd in silent prayer, repentIt is only necessary that we fall away againInto love

One deep breath, one last step and out into oblivion where death held out its arms into a welcoming embrace.

It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you

Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined.

Still there are some, braver and more valiant than their peers, who face their demons head on, staring defiantly into the shadows, demanding forgiveness.

If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn’t take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.

When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing – the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.

Life is a do-it-yourself project.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.

To forgive does not mean to condone.

But why is it so hard to forgive?’ Mrs. Conners asked.’Pride,’ Dad said. ‘This person has already wronged you in some way, and now you are the one who has to swallow your pride, give...

And that you seek forgiveness of your Lord, and then turn to Him. He will provide for you a goodly provision until an appointed term. And He will grant His grace to every one possessed...

Forgiving practice is like peeling an onion, you have to do over and over again many times to achieve freedom… Each time we visualize the person in front of us and forgive, we peel off...

Forgiveness is God’s greatest gift

Absolution exists, call it Christian or whatever. It’s far older than any creed, and one of our blessings.

Jane, I never meant to wound you thus…Will you ever forgive me?”Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.

It’s a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that...

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

Life’s too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what’s right. Right by your own heart.…Forgiveness sets you free.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Often we can’t reach what is in front of us until we let go what is behind. Don’t let your struggle become your identity.

In the past you have suppressed and denied the ego system. The ego has not been raised to awareness, but once you start to raise it to awareness and the stuff starts getting flushed up,...

Instead of negotiating or begging for mercy, [my brother Damascene] challenged them to kill him. “Go ahead,” he said. “What are you waiting for? Today is my day to go to God. I can feel...

Sometimes we carry unhappy feelings about past hurts too long. We spend too much energy dwelling on things that have passed and cannot be changed. We struggle to close the door and let go of...

We’re a team. It’s part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. Otherwise, we’d never get anything done.

When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn’t hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.

Just as the rain carries positive ions, so does change make you more apt to experience love with an expansive heart.

Love is an act; the act of loving, the act of compassionate and the act of forgiveness.

He doesn’t hurt us anymore.”Of course he doesn’t hurt you anymore, I think. You’re not defenseless anymore.

But it comes to me that two wrongs don’t make another wrong.

The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay only once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have...

What they have been teaching us is wrong. Yes, we do have control over our choices. Why? Because life gave us the freedom to choose. The only downside to this freedom are the insatiable consequences...

Forgiveness is the fastest way to a spiritual path and inner peace of mind

At Times I Am A Flower…at times I am a flower ~singularly defined …

There’s some things I’ve done wrong that I’ve asked forgiveness for, and there’s some things other people have done that I’ve forgiven them for. I have absolutely no ill feelings, no anger, no resentment for...

Abraham had eight sons–not one. All eight sons bring something to the table. Abraham loved all of his sons. He was a good father who made sure all his sons were literate, of good character...

May spending time with You be my first priority, may listening and obeying mark my life, may extravagant childlike joy and amazement mark my demeanor, may an openness to share your grace quickly and easily...

What was I learning?