Waiting Is The Hardest Work Of Hope.

Spoken Forgiveness, No Matter How Heartfelt, Works Best When We Do Not Demand The Response We Want. I Mean That When We Tell People We Forgive Them, We Must Leave Them Free To Respond To Our Good News However They Are Inclined. If The Response Is Not What We Hoped For, We Can Go Home And Enjoy Our Own Healing In Private.

The Secret Of Grace Is That It Can Be All Right At The Center Even When It Is All Wrong On The Edges.

How Many Times Should You Forgive Your Household Bruiser? You Should Not Even Think About Forgiving Him. Not Yet. Not As Long As He Has His Foot On Your Neck. Your Problem At This Point Is Not Forgiving. Your Problem Is How To Get Out Of His Reach. Once You Get Away From Him, You Can Think About Forgiving Him.

The Rule Is: We Cannot Really Forgive Ourselves Unless We Look At The Failure In Our Past And Call It By Its Right Name.

Forgiving Is An Affair Strictly Between A Victim And A Victimizer. Everyone Else Should Step Aside...the Worst Wounds I Ever Felt Were The Ones People Gave To My Children. Wrong My Kids, You Wrong Me. And My Hurt Qualifies Me To Forgive You. But Only For The Pain You Caused Me When You Wounded Them. My Children Alone Are Qualified To Forgive You For What You Did To Them.