Quotes about Release

Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.

We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.

If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.

Tears can be good. They can cleanse us form our misery.

At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

When you forgive someone, you make a choice to cancel the debt he owes you.

Forgiveness releases to the Lord your need for them to be punished or corrected, giving it to the only One who can do this with right measures of justice and mercy.

Those who cooperate most fully with forgiveness are those who dance most freely in the beauty of redemption.