“Before you die, forgive! Forgive your father, forgive your mother, forgive the church, forgive your country, forgive yourself, and then forgive God so that you don’t die an angry, bitter person because that’s the ultimate moral imperative.”*
~Andrew Greeley
How can practicing forgiveness towards others and ourselves lead to a more peaceful and fulfilling life?
*This is a paraphrase. The compete quote is as follows:
“Before you die, forgive! Forgive your father for being an alcoholic, forgive your mother for not protecting you, forgive the church for wherever ways it failed you, forgive Ireland for the poverty, rain, and bad teachers it inflicted on you, forgive yourself for the failures of your own life, and then forgive God because life isn’t fair… so that you don’t die an angry and bitter man because that’s really the ultimate moral imperative.”
~Andrew Greeley
Grappling With Divinity 