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"Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don't feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they're stuck right where they started: Guilty."
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"If God forgave you, then forget your past and renounce it."
"If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo."
"Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person."
"Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered."
"Love's voice reverberates with forgiveness across the room of our heart."
"We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we."
"I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart."
"It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do."
"I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me."
"To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves."
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"For example, your man might think: I don't steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I heard so and so stole from his company. See? Those men for whose opinion he cares approve of embezzlement in one area, not the other. He uses them to maintain a claim on goodness while at the same time stealing."
"Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins."
"The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way."
"Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others."
"They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief."
"Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it."
"The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds on to their sinfulness and their guilt for it, because otherwise, they'd have no relationship with Him at all. And, of course, no relationship can be based on guilt and survive."
"You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be 'undemocratic'."
"I don't even like the phrase 'opportunity to sin' because it implies the opportunity to obey."
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