Quotes about Release

Withholding forgiveness until an offender understands or acknowledges the emotional pain they have inflicted is a subtle form of revenge. Why? Because it's hoping that the offender would hurt a little too, in order to understand. But this type of revenge robs you of your freedom and allows the offender to keep control of you. Dr. Chuck Lynch, I Should Forgive, but .

When we forgive someone, it doesn't justify what they've done. It releases them into God's hands so He can deal with them.

God doesn't want us carrying anything that is unnecessary because it will weigh us down and hinder what He has called us to do.

Whether it's something that happened as long ago as your early childhood or as recently as yesterday, the past can keep you from moving into all God has for you. That's why He wants to set you free from it.

We all need to understand that we can't "fix" or "change" our adult children. Only God can make changes that last in anyone. Our job is to release our adult children into God's hands and then pray

after the initial pain of releasing our children there comes joy and peace, both for them and us.

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

Confession has a "consequence" too—a good consequence! A free and happy heart!

Forgiveness is an action, not an emotion.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

That "henceforth the heat of having shall never scorch him more.