The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.

To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence.

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

I’ve learned that when people are hurting, they need a comforter, not a commentator.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.

He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

Racing is the fun part; it's the reward of all the hard work.

I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does.

The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.