“Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.”
“More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.”
“Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.”
“Most people would rather suffer through a bad situation than take steps needed to free themselves...”
“The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.”
“In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.”