Quotes About Release

When you forgive someone, you slice away the wrong from the person who did it. You disengage that person from his hurtful act.

Forgiveness is achingly difficult, and long after you've forgiven, the wound—my dastardly deeds—lives on in memory.

Forgiveness—undeserved, unearned—can cut the cords and let the oppressive burden of guilt roll away.

By forgiving, I release my own right to get even and leave all issues of fairness for God to work out.

Though wrong does not disappear when I forgive, it loses its grip on me and is taken over by God, who knows what to do. Such a decision involves risk, of course: the risk that God may not deal with the person as I would want.

Lewis Smedes points out, "The first and often the only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness. . . . When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.

If it means something to you,then take it to heart. If it means nothing, it means nothing, let it go.

When it is possible to speak a word, it liberates. We do not always remember that it is precisely a word, a Word articulated in our flesh, which has liberated us.

Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself. Bink put his face in his hands and cried.

It is only those who practice philosophy in the right way, we say, who always most want to free the soul; and this release and separation of the soul from the body is the preoccupation of the philosophers? So it appears. Therefore, as I said at the beginning, it would be ridiculous for a man to train himself in life to live in a state as close to death as possible, and then to resent it when it comes? Ridiculous, of course.

Isn't there still one other possibility ... ," I said, "our persuading you that you must let us go?

Prayer Releases All Your Eternal Resources

Restricting yourself in the truth of God's word actually releases you into a freedom you would not otherwise have.

The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook—even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.

Her eyes felt swollen, and she knew she looked a mess, but sometimes...sometimes the emotions were just too big to hold.

It's an excuse to let their vilest impulses out to play.

Sweat, malice, and hunger pour from me. This is release, or maybe it's just a plea for release.

For love does not set shackles, nor entrap.

And she'd felt an opening in her chest where she hadn't known anything was closed.

If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've held my tears so long that I can't cry anymore, that I'm a dry stone and nothing can ever be wrung from me.

The release from action and suffering, release from the inner and the outer compulsion.

Ringrock is not a prison.

I wept a little. Sometimes I do. I'm not embarrassed by tears. At times like this, tears exorcise emotions that would otherwise haunt me and, by their haunting, embitter me.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.