Quotes about Letting go

Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten—a principle that applies to nations as well as individuals.

Don't make a great effort, or struggle, or fight as you sit. Let go of everything. This prevents backache, shoulder-ache, or headache. If you are able to find a cushion that fits your body well, you can sit for a long time without feeling tired.

I need no longer always manage and muster support for my "cause."

Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe that life is to be loved, it is a gift.

The only way to know yourself in and as the light is to let go of all your attachments to who you think you are in this world. You know the sayings: hate your entire life, deny yourself, take up the cross. All these mean the same thing. Let go of the meaning you give life in all your judgments of value based on the knowledge of good and evil. You've heard this?" "Jesus said those things," I said, knowing the verses well.

Though wrong does not disappear when I forgive, it loses its grip on me and is taken over by God, who knows what to do. Such a decision involves risk, of course: the risk that God may not deal with the person as I would want.

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

Did someone harm you in 1962.. let go of it! Control and ride the horses of anger.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.