The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.

We should never judge people without first learning to hear and to respect them.

With our own shortcomings, we are in no position to judge anyone else. The best way to forget the faults of others is to remember our own.

But to observe our neighbor's faults with the intention of looking down upon them or of detracting them . . . is sinful.

we forgive those who trespass

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.