A Quote by Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

Corrie Ten Boom

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Bitterness Breaks Chains Door Forgiveness Handcuffs Hatred Key Power Resentment Selfishness Shackles

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Corrie Ten Boom
Dutch - Author
April 15, 1892 - April 15, 1983

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

Dick Gephardt

Forgiveness is the key to breaking the cycle of karma and reincarnation. Forgiveness doesn't mean: "What you did was okay." It simply means, "I'm no longer willing to carry the heavy toxic burdens of anger, resentment, and victimhood in my soul." You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!

Doreen Virtue

Christ is the door that opens into God's presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door; but the Spirit is He that makes this key.

William Gurnall

The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again.

Benjamin Franklin

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

Jack Kornfield

If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance

James Augustus St. John

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

Joe Walsh

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

Richard Paul Evans

Repentance is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy.

James MacDonald

Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

B.K.S. Iyengar

History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future.

Runoko Rashidi

History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!

Leon Trotsky

Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

Amy Harmon

I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.