I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.

Love. Forgive. As you forgive, you will be forgiven.

You have just convinced me the faith you have found is what I need. What I have longed for. There is nothing further you could have said that would have convinced me. But this? This need to forgive. That is real, Julia. Genuine. I know it cannot come from within — except by the help of your God. Would you tell me how I might receive this ability to forgive from the God you have claimed as your own?

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

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.

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way he can't do anything to you because you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.

To not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.