Not About Forgetting
“No, we remember, but in forgiving we no longer use the memory against others.”
– Richard J. Foster, Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home, p. 187
Category: Inspiration
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As We Forgive Our Debtors
“So it is with forgiveness. As long as the only cry heard among us is for vengeance, there can be no reconciliation. If our hears are so narrow as to see only how others have hurt and offended us, we cannot see how we have offended God and so find no need to seek forgiveness.”
– Richard J. Foster, Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home, p. 187
God loves to forgive.
[Jesus] “teaches us in this way because he knows how very much God loves to forgive. It is the one thing he yearns to do, aches to do, rushes to do. At the very heart of the universe is God’s desire to give and to forgive.”
— Richard J. Foster, Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home
Love and Self-respect
“Even when no one else seems to recognize how truly remarkable we are, we always have ourselves, the one inexhaustible resource for positive reinforcement, the one person who will always proudly wave our personal flag.”
–Leo Buscaglia, Born for Love: Reflections on Loving, p. 16.
God’s Power to Heal
“Please, accept the word of this prodigal, without illustration, that God can solve all the problems we have created in our marriages. Our Creator knows that as human beings living in a sinful world, we often fail Him. He is ready to forgive us and rescue us and our marriages from satan.”
–Bob Steinkamp, Prodigals Do Come Home, p. 28.
“There is no failure where love is concerned.”
“As long as we continue to seek love, some failure is bound to occur. But hurt is a strong impetus for action. When we seek to find the causes of our failures, we always emerge wiser. We gain new alternatives for our old behaviors and acquire new resources for future encounters. This is certainly not failure. Rather, it is the way that produces lasting change. It is the way of insight and growth. It is the way of love.”
–Leo Buscaglia, Born for Love: Reflections on Loving, p. 7
Its Own Punishment
“I realized once again that we’re punished not for our hatred, for not forgiving people, but by it.”
–Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually), p. 129
Living for Today
“Forgiveness is the powerful assertion that bad things will not ruin your today even though they may have spoiled your past.”
—Dr. Fred Luskin in Forgive for Good
A Change of Focus
“My central message here is when you bring more positive experiences into your life, your hurts will diminish in importance. In fact, this is the first step to taking responsibility for how you feel and beginning to forgive. If I rent out more and more space in my mind to appreciating my children or the loveliness of a rainy day, there is as a result less space and time for dwelling on the hurts.”
–Dr. Fred Luskin, Forgive for Good
Strategic Mistake
“The enemy specializes in taking advantage of any refusal to forgive.”
–Beth Moore, Praying God’s Word Day by Day