Joyce Meyer Quotes

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with a violin. Begin with the basics. If you forget, you will not forgive at all. You can never forgive people for things you have forgotten about. You need to forgive precisely because you have not forgotten what someone did; your memory keeps the pain alive long after the hurt has stopped. Remembering is the storage of pain. It is why you need to be healed in the first place.

You can always forgive, you just can't really forget.

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

Time will heal everything.

Sometimes you can't forgive, but you try to forget.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

. . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.

How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget?

Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.

I will always forgive but I will never forget.

The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.

I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.

I like people who have the capacity to forget. I think that to forget is a good thing. Forgetting is good. But sometimes I cannot. For me, I cannot.

Some people you can forgive and forget. Some people you cannot forgive or forget. There are other people you can forgive and not forget. So there's people you can forgive and forget. Forgive and not forget. It depends on what they've done.

The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision. ... You set a prisoner free, but you discover the real prisoner was yourself.

It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive and I think that you should.

Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?