"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."
-Henry Ward Beecher-
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.
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