Quotes about Healing

people who do not forgive are hurting themselves much more than they're hurting others. A person who possesses this characteristic and keeps score in relationships is a person who is emotionally wired to carry all the stress that goes with carrying grudges.

Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.

We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than wounds we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet there is no peace without forgiveness.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.

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.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

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