Quotes about Release

And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.

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

I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such a great meaning.

But you are not his prisoner of war, unless you choose to be. Those days can be over. That's your call.

The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.

Secrets ain't a healthy thang, no matter how old they is. Sometimes the oldest secrets is the worst of all.

How wonderful the days when all was well. How necessary, also, that we must release them now. It is fine enough to glance at the past, but one must never focus there overlong. Don't you think?

Living, really living, wasn't about clinging to control but about giving it away.

Forgiveness given is forgiveness gained.

Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.

What can't be understood and neatly sewn up must simply be let go, not in the way of giving up, but in the way of understanding who is really in control of it.