Love is full of pain and mistakes. That's what makes it interesting and that's why we explore relationships in literature. That whole 'love is never having to say you're sorry' crap is just that, crap. Love is learning how to say you're sorry.

Forgiveness is release — to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. To not forgive is to chain oneself to people and circumstances of the past. In doing so, our past becomes our future.

Hating those boys didn't do anything to the boys, just to me. So I pushed them and all my hate from my heart. Once I did that, God came back in.

It's like they say, holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

Forgiveness is alchemy. To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it and turn it into something noble and fine. That is true alchemy. Remember that. It's not always easy, but if you can do that, you'll have a happy life.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

Here see the opposite disposition between the holy nature of Christ, and the impure nature of man. Man for a little smoke will quench the light; Christ ever we see cherisheth even the least beginnings. How bare he with the many imperfections of his poor disciples. If he did sharply check them, it was in love, and that they might shine the brighter. Can we have a better pattern to follow than this of him by whom we hope to be saved?

In conflict, time heals nothing; it causes hurts to fester.

Delay only deepens resentment and makes matters worse. In conflict, time heals nothing; it causes hurts to fester.

Reconciliation means you bury the hatchet, not necessarily the issue.

To worry yourself to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do

Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out.