Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.

We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.

I have forgiven those who were persecuting me.

The Lord is forgiving, but sometimes life is not forgiving.

He was never angry when she made mistakes. He complimented and encouraged her. He shared his own mishaps with a sense of humor that made her less annoyed with her own incompetence. He gave her hope that she could learn, and pride when she did.

Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.

Lord, forgive me. You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy. Help me. Open my heart and mind so that I will love her as you have loved me.

I loved her, Lord. I loved her enough to die for her, and she did this to me. Maybe she's beyond redemption. How do you forgive someone who doesn't even care enough to want to be forgiven?

It's not easy for me either, but if we allow anger to reside in us, we're more guilty than they are because we know the better way.

Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response—never to forgive and never to forget.

What terrible things we do to those we love!

In our society, people shouldn't be quick to take offense. It's frequently suicidal.