Watch out for the people who say that all is good between them and God but have no interest in being reconciled with the people whom their sin has injured.

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.

When we see the faults of others, we are to forgive and forbear in humility.

Because in prayer I expand my sense of how I have offended God. And I thereby lower my sense of how much others have offended me. Prayer is changing me.

You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.

I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.

there's nothin' like Christian feelin's for upsettin' a man's domestic comfort.

How do you do?" "How do you do?" echoed Mr. Ingleby. They gazed at one another with the faint resentment of two cats at their first meeting. Mr. Hankin smiled kindly at them both.

I am ready,' said Gilda Farren, 'to forgive—' 'Never do that,' said Wimsey. 'Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.