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

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

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

The secret of grace is that it can be all right at the center even when it is all wrong on the edges.

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.

I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it. Forgiveness has to come from inside as a desire of the heart. Wanting to is the steam that pushes the forgiving engine.