To Forgive Is To Set A Prisoner

Forgiving Does Not Usually Happen At Once. It Is A Process, Sometimes A Long One, Especially When It Comes To Wounds Gouged Deep. And We Must Expect Some Lapses...some People Seem To Manage To Finish Off Forgiving In One Swoop Of The Heart. But When They Do, You Can Bet They Are Forgiving Flesh Wounds. Deeper Cuts Take More Time And Can Use A Second Coat.

If You Cannot Free People From Their Wrongs And See Them As The Needy People They Are, You Enslave Yourself To Your Own Painful Past And By Fastening Yourself To The Past, You Let Your Hate Become Your Future.

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.

Forgiveness Is The Key That Can Unshackle Us From A Past That Will Not Rest In The Grave Of Things Over And Done With. As Long As Our Minds Are Captive To The Memory Of Having Been Wronged, They Are Not Free To Wish For Reconciliation With The One Who Wronged Us.

It Takes One Person To Forgive, It Takes Two People To Be Reunited.