Max Lucado Quotes

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

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.