When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them.

Stormie Omartian
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More Quotes By Stormie Omartian
  1. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

  2. Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

  3. You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

  4. When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do...

  5. If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn...

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