The Rule Is: We Cannot Really Forgive

Because Arrogance Is Born In Personal Vanity, Arrogant People Are Driven Without Mercy. They Can Never Get Enough Power To Fill The Soul's Needs Or Enough Respect To Overcome The Fear That They Deserve Less Than They Are Getting.

Forgiving Is Love's Toughest Work, And Love's Biggest Risk. If You Twist It Into Something It Was Never Meant To Be, It Can Make You A Doormat Or An Insufferable Manipulator. Forgiving Seems Almost Unnatural. Our Sense Of Fairness Tells Us People Should Pay For The Wrong They Do. But Forgiving Is Love's Power To Break Nature's Rule.

None Of Us Wants To Admit That We Hate Someone... When We Deny Our Hate We Detour Around The Crisis Of Forgiveness. We Suppress Our Spite, Make Adjustments, And Make Believe We Are Too Good To Be Hateful. But The Truth Is That We Do Not Dare To Risk Admitting The Hate We Feel Because We Do Not Dare To Risk Forgiving The Person We Hate.

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 Of Unfairness And Create A Chance For A New Fairness. Only Forgiveness Can Make The Breakthrough.

God Invented Forgiving As A Remedy For A Past That Not Even He Could Change And Not Even He Could Forget. His Way Of Forgiving Is The Model For Our Forgiving.