Healing Relationships Quotes

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another. I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.

Relationships are always worth restoring.

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember.

Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Sleeping with forgiveness in your heart for me.

In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

I wanted a stable job, and I wanted to feel like I was grounded with my family and to have personal relationships in my life that were healing and honest and genuine.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

Sometimes we can take offense so easily. On other occasions we are too stubborn to accept a sincere apology. Who will subordinate ego, pride, and hurt-then step forward with 'I am truly sorry! Let's be as we once were: friends. Let's not pass to future generations the grievances, the anger of our time'? Let's remove any hidden wedges that can do nothing but destroy.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.

Love opens all doors, no matter how tightly closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to open all those doors which have been closed for a long time. Have patience and tolerance. Open your heart all the time.