I was reading the link about forgiveness and I found these cool quotes...the whole letter is good, makes you want to check your heart and let go of any bitterness.
*Love lets the past die. It moves people to a new beginning without settling the past. Love does not have to clear up all past misunderstandings. The details of the past become irrelevant; only its new beginning matters. Accounts may go unsettled; differences remain unsolved; ledgers stay unbalanced. Conflicts between people’s memories of how things happened are not cleared up; the past stays muddled. Only the future matters. Love’s power does not make fussy historians. Love prefers to tuck the loose ends of past rights and wrongs in the bosom of forgiveness—and pushes us into a new start.—Lewis B. Smedes, “Love Within Limits”
*Forgiveness is something you do for yourself, and you do it for Jesus. You do it because it’s the only way to heal. You do it because it will help you to be happier; it will set you free from the chains of resentment, bitterness and misery.
*Forgiveness is the act that helps another’s wrong to not become your wrong as well.
*It won’t ever be “fair,” but forgiveness will make things right in your life
*One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed.—Bernard M. Baruch
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