Unconditional? Quotes

“Forgiveness here should be understood not as legal pardon but an invitation back into the human community.”
― Brian Zahnd, Unconditional?: The Call of Jesus to Radical Forgiveness

“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. This toxic”
― Brian Zahnd, Unconditional?: The call of Jesus to radical forgiveness

“It is forgiveness alone that has the capacity to break the chains of injustice and give us the possibility of a new future—a future unchained from the past and free of bitterness. The world of resentment and bitterness is a small, ever-shrinking world. It is a world of ever-diminishing possibilities. It is a world on a trajectory of collapse into the singularity of resentment. Unforgiveness has a devastating way of eliminating new possibilities. Everything remains chained to the past, and the suffered injustice becomes the single informing event in the life of the embittered soul. But the choice to forgive breaks the tyranny of injustice and the bitterness it seeks to create.”
― Brian Zahnd, Unconditional?: The call of Jesus to radical forgiveness