He’d meant to forgive his brother, maybe even imagined he had. He’d also meant to learn to trust him, but instead merely fell into the habit of waiting for him to fuck up again.
Richard RussoTag: forgiveness
As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.
Dietrich BonhoefferTag: forgiveness fellowship christ
Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy and sinless, He is a just judge of evil and the enemy of all disobedience. But a brother is sinful as we are. He knows from his own experience the dark night of secret sin. Why should we not find it easier to go to a brother than to the holy God? But if we do, we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of sin to God, whether we have not rather been confessing our sins to ourselves and also granting ourselves absolution...Who can give us the certainty that, in the confession and the forgiveness of our sins, we are not dealing with ourselves but with the living God? God gives us this certainty through our brother. Our brother breaks the circle of self-deception. A man who confesses his sins in the presence of a brother knows that he is no longer alone with himself; he experiences the presence of God in the reality of the other person.
Dietrich BonhoefferTag: sin forgiveness jesus prayer confession spiritual-friendship
Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute.
Toni Elizabeth Sar'h PetrinovichTag: love religion forgiveness spirituality metaphysics absolution enlightenment god-s-grace
There's a fine line between forgiveness and denial.
Janet RebhanTag: forgiveness denial fine-line
...the best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ...
John GeddesTag: empathy forgiveness
No matter how long you behest, to the fruit draped tree.
It will do you no best, until a shingle you free.
Tag: power war forgiveness actions powerful do actions-over-words powerful-poetry begging
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird.
Laura HillenbrandTag: freedom hate revenge hatred forgiveness survivors abuse-survivors
Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.
Melissa V. Harris-PerryTag: shame forgiveness humanism dysfunctional-organizations
No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isn’t really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face.
Alan HeathcockTag: honesty hate revenge forgiveness anger letting-go
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