Quotes about Release
Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Your past must die for your future to live.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
— Max Lucado
Forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself.
— Maya Angelou
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
— Maya Angelou
Deliverance is not the same as freedom. Deliverance is release from the oppressor, but freedom is deliverance from oppression.
— Myles Munroe
We are like a frightened bird before him, shrinking away lest his demand crush us completely. But when we eventually yield—when he corners us and finally takes us into his hand—we find to our astonishment that he is infinitely gentle and that his only aim is to release us from our prison, to set us free to be the people he made us to be. But when we fly out into the sunshine, how can we not then offer the same gentle gift of freedom, of forgiveness, to those around us?
— NT Wright
The fact is that when we forgive someone we not only release them from the burden of our anger and its possible consequences; we release ourselves from the burden of whatever it was they had done to us, and from the crippled emotional state in which we shall go on living if we don't forgive them and instead cling to our anger and bitterness.
— NT Wright
Forget the past.
— Nelson Mandela
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
— Nelson Mandela