Paul J. Meyer Quotes

There is hope in forgiveness

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

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.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

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.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.

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

I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven.