I think the absolute greatest gift you can give someone this holiday season is an Undeserved Forgiveness. Not because our enemy has finally changed their ways or repented or even apologized. But exactly because they have not. That through this free gift of unmerited forgiveness you have shared with them a glimpse of the eternal love of our living God. Here's some very honest quotes to think about as you make your Christmas Card list this year...
Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me. -Anonymous
Forgiveness is . . . accepting God's sovereign use of people and situations to strip you of self importance, and humiliate your self love. -Martha Kilpatrick
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 we forgive it. -Louis B. Smedes
Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.—Nelson Mandela when asked why he was not resentful for his imprisonment.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. --William Blake
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