The Secret Of Grace Is That It

To Miss Out On Joy Is To Miss Out On The Reason For Your Existence.

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 Forgive, We Stiffen Our Spine And We Hold A Person Accountable. And Only Then, In Tough-minded Judgment, Can We Do The Outrageously Impossible Thing: We Can Forgive.

If We Say That Monsters [people Who Do Terrible Evil] Are Beyond Forgiving, We Give Them A Power They Should Never Have...they Are Given The Power To Keep Their Evil Alive In The Hearts Of Those Who Suffered Most. We Give Them Power To Condemn Their Victims To Live Forever With The Hurting Memory Of Their Painful Pasts. We Give The Monsters The Last Word.

Forgiveness Is God's Invention For Coming To Terms With A World In Which People Are Unfair To Each Other And Hurt Each Other Deeply. He Began By Forgiving Us. And He Invites Us All To Forgive Each Other.

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.