Quotes about Release

Clinging to the past so hard it was like leaving an arrow embedded instead of pulling it out and letting the wound bleed clean, then heal.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

At last I understood: in the final analysis, forgiveness is an act of faith. By forgiving another, I am trusting that God is a better justice-maker than I am. By forgiving, I release my own right to get even and leave all issues of fairness for God to work out. I leave in God's hands the scales that must balance justice and mercy.

Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten

Only forgiveness frees us from the injustice of others.

When you forgive someone, you slice away the wrong from the person who did it. You disengage that person from his hurtful act.

Forgiveness—undeserved, unearned—can cut the cords and let the oppressive burden of guilt roll away.

By forgiving, I release my own right to get even and leave all issues of fairness for God to work out.

Though wrong does not disappear when I forgive, it loses its grip on me and is taken over by God, who knows what to do. Such a decision involves risk, of course: the risk that God may not deal with the person as I would want.