Unable To Forgive Quotes

• A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some validation from him that her pain is real, that he's sorry and will make amends. The child will wait forever, unable to move forward, unable to forgive, without someone to acknowledge the past. In that powerlessness comes a terrible rage.

  Lisa Unger

  Children, Sorry, Pain

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.747, Crown

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• There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

  Herbert Benson

  Healing, Health, People

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• The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put an end to something that without interference could go on endlessly. It is therefore quite significant, a structural element in the realm of human affairs, that men are unable to forgive what they cannot punish and that they are unable to punish what has turned out to be unforgivable.

  Hannah

  Mean, Men, Opposites

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• He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Forgiving, Mind

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.208, Pan Macmillan

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• If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

  Timothy Keller

  Forgiving, Sin, Radical

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.74, Penguin

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