Action and reaction are everywhere.
Take anything happening now and there is a cause or causes. Go back another step and something caused the causes ad infinitum. If someone did something wrong there is also a reason, even if they did it to you. If you do something there is a reason. Heredity, environment, revenge, temptation, and opportunity play a part. Sometimes the reason is hidden or outside of our understanding yet it is still there.
“To understand all is to forgive all” –French Proverb
None of us understand everything, so a leap of faith is a part of learning to forgive everything. It is easy intellectually to grasp cause and effect, but when you are the injured party it can be hard to apply this obvious fact to the actions of your enemy. Everyone has done something they need to be forgiven for.
Peace is a worthy goal.
Most of the sources for conflict are unforgiving people. Wrongs that occurred long ago have power to kill today because they are not being forgiven. Peace requires that someone break the chain of revenge. Going forward with an eye for an eye in all things eventually ends when almost everyone is dead. The lucky survivors have spent their time killing and hiding from those that would kill them.
If you can accept that the chain should end be the first to forgive. If you understand that perfect knowledge forgives everything then you can know that you are free of guilt for the wrong that you have done because you are forgiven.
Free of guilt and hate is a good way to be progressive.
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I really don't understand this quote: “To understand all is to forgive all” –French Proverb
How is forgiveness understanding? Those two are completely different and, if anything, forgiveness is not about understanding. Its about following your heart even when you don't want to forgive.
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If anyone can help please do.
There is an Indian version that goes something like:
"Before you critisize someone, walk a mile in her moccasins."
Both are ways to suggest that you should look at things from more than one point of view to see the truth. I don't want to give examples because of the risk of choosing some you might not want to forgive.
If you understand why an action was inevitable how could you avoid forgiving the person that did it?
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde
“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”
Emo Philips
Forgiveness is also a form of relating to another; also like walking a mile in their shoes. When you honestly forgive someone, it's because you understand fully why they did it and you realize the reasoning behind it. Being able to relate to another human being on this personal level means that you cannot help but forgive what they have done in the past to have harmed you; that is true forgiveness.
This is why we have difficulty forgiving people like murderers and rapists. It's almost impossible to really relate to these people, and understand why they did what they did. It takes a truly understanding person, or an FBI profiler, to want to relate on a personal level and desire forgiveness.
Someone understands. There is nothing more for me to add to this truth.
Thank You! We just need to get the rest of the world to get the mature concept.
There are so many people in the world today that suffer because they have not learned to Forgive another that has offended or hurt them in some way ,and yet they themselves hurt others that are around them .We aught to learn to forgive. Why should God forgive us if we are not willing to forgive another how then are we better then another. For dose not God say Ill forgive whom I wish to FORGIVE and for you it is required of you to forgive all. We do not know who will return to live with God and for this reason we are asked to forgive and in many ways it is a way to learn to love instead of hate those that have offended.
If God has forgiven us for every law and statute we have broken and also gave his only son that we would be forgiven that is love and you can't forgive if you don't have love, for God is love and he he loved us so much that he gave his son as a sacrifice that our sins may be pardoned and our souls would be cleanse that we may enter into relationship with him. That's how much God loves us and want a relationship with us.