"Our happiness lies in hope. If we can approach the future with hope, we can be happy. This is because hope is the prevailing attitude that the pain and disappointments of the past do not have to be endlessly repeated. Hope dares to imagine the future as a legitimate alternative to the vicious repetitions of the past. But the refusal to forgive is a toxic memory that endlessly pulls the painful past into the present. The toxic memory of the unforgiven past poisons the present and contaminates the future."
Unconditional: The Call of Jesus to Radical Forgiveness, by Brian Zahnd, Page 71
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