How To Forgive Quotes

“Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.”
― Josee D'Amore

“Turning something over to the Holy Spirit is a leap of faith that lets go of attempting to control outcomes. The core of alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, smoking and a host of things the world calls addictions is control. The little willingness the Holy Spirit asks is the key to letting go of the attempt to manage the body and the world, which is the insane attempt to maintain a self-concept image that God did not create. An idea to contemplate from the Course is this: "Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world." The requirement is to change your thinking, not to focus on behavior and form. Behavior flows from thought, and transformation of the mind is synonymous with changing thought patterns from ego-based to Spirit-based.”
― David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles

“Relationships without a Divine Aim always "break up," for they are based on nothing. Divine Purpose could be described as forgiveness -- the undoing and releasing of the ego. Belief in the ego prevents awareness of True Union and Intimacy. The underlying fear of Intimacy and Union is the ego's fear of loss of itself, the 'personal self' and the 'personal world.”
― David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles

“Your desire and willingness will call forth witnesses to Awakening, and there is nothing in form that can speed up Awakening – for form but witnesses to the desire within.”
― David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles

“Awakening involves mind training. Step back and pay attention to the thoughts that come into awareness. Feel your desire for healing. Preferences are judgments, and as the mind yields to the nonjudgmental Perspective of the Holy Spirit, the Awakening is obvious. Observe that as long as appetites seem to exist there are the ego defenses of indulgence and repression. Neither is better or worse than the other, for they are the same illusion. The miracle offers a real alternative and when one is consistently miracle-minded, defenses are no longer needed.”
― David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles

“Forgive nothing until you are good and ready to, especially if there has been no indication that the behavior causing you distress has changed.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“The impetus that brought me flailing and kicking toward forgiveness's feet was knowing that my daughter would need an idea of how to do it later in life, too, and she was watching me now; realizing that made me shake off the dust and ask God to be a man and show me how to do it.”
― Barbara Lynn-Vannoy