Forgiveness means refusing to make someone pay for what they did. However, to refrain from lashing out at someone when you want to do so with all your being is agony. It is a form of suffering. You not only suffer the original loss of happiness, reputation and opportunity but now you forgo the consolation of inflicting the same on them...It hurts terribly. Many people would say it feels like a kind of death.
-Tim Keller, The Reason for God
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was listening to this book on audio while cleaning my room the other day and these very sentences were resounding in my mind for the next many days.
mmm. truth.
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