These little known quotes on forgiveness bring a perspective worth contemplating--including, David McArthur & Bruce McArthur, Sara Paddison, Henry Ward Beecher, Mignon McLaughlin, et al.
"Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it.
The opposite is true.
Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it.
Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively.
"--David McArthur & Bruce McArthur "Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile.
"--Doc Childre and Howard Martin "Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change.
Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you.
Love them and release them.
Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time--just like it does for you and me.
"--Sara Paddison "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
" --Henry Ward Beecher "Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
" --Sholem Asch "Forgiveness is a funny thing.
It warms the heart and cools the sting.
" --William A.
Ward "What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
"--Mignon McLaughlin