Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.

Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.

Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.

God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.

My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.